There's a proposal I posted a while ago to store generic datasets that can be represented in a tabular or JSON format in a dedicated project namespace with dedicated handlers:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/DataNamespace There's some good discussion on the talk page on the differences between this type of data and structure data hosted on Wikidata and where this thing could live (it could live on any Wikimedia wiki, including Commons or Meta). It looks like this could be a good fit for shapefiles and I'd love to hear your thoughts if you have a moment to read this. Dario > On Aug 5, 2014, at 8:43, Paul Houle <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm intensely interested in links to shapefiles from databases such as > Wikidata, DBpedia and Freebase. In particular I'd like to get Natural Earth > hooked up > > http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ > > It's definitely a weakness of current generic databases that they use the > 'point GIS' model that is so popular in the social media world. > > >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Magnus Manske <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> We don't have shapefiles yet, but a lot of property types such as geographic >> coordinates (as in, one per item, ideally...), external identifiers (e.g. >> VIAF), dates, etc. >> >> A (reasonably) simple way to mass-add statements to Wikidata is this tool: >> http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/quick_statements.php >> >> A combination of spreadsheet apps, shell commands, and/or a good text editor >> should allow you to convert many CSVs into the tool's input format. >> >> Cheers, >> Magnus >> >> >>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Brylie Christopher Oxley >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I would like to contribute data to Wikidata that is in the form of CSV >>> files, >>> geospatial shapefiles, etc. >>> >>> Is there currently, or planned, functionality to store general structured >>> data >>> on Wikidata? >>> -- >>> Brylie Christopher Oxley >>> http://gnumedia.org >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikidata-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > > > -- > Paul Houle > Expert on Freebase, DBpedia, Hadoop and RDF > (607) 539 6254 paul.houle on Skype [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
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