+1, make sure to bring someone from the project with you.

Sjoerd de Bruin

> Op 13 aug. 2015 om 11:10 heeft Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> 
> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Hoi,
> Make sure that you take a Wikidata person with you. It makes a difference. 
> Maarten, Sjoerd, Jane, Edo, me.... they know the project and what we can do. 
> They will help them get their feet wet and not drown in all the technical 
> nitbits.
> Thanks,
>        GerardM
> 
>> On 13 August 2015 at 09:56, Arne Wossink <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thanks all for the input! I would like to stress again that the first 
>> meeting with the CBS has yet to take place, but we will definitely take the 
>> views expressed here into account.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> 
>> Arne Wossink
>> 
>> Projectleider / Project Lead Wikimedia Nederland
>> 
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>> 2015-08-08 13:10 GMT+02:00 John Erling Blad <[email protected]>:
>>> There have been some discussions about reuse of statistics with people
>>> from Statistics Norway.[1] They use a format called JSON-stat.[2] A
>>> bunch of census bureaus are starting to use JSON-stat, for example
>>> Statistics Norway, UK’s Office for National Statistics, Statistics
>>> Sweden, Statistics Denmark, Instituto Galego de Estatística, and
>>> Central Statistics Office of Ireland. I've heard about other too.
>>> 
>>> I have started on some rant at Meta about it, I didn't finish it.[3]
>>> Perhaps more people will join in? ;)
>>> 
>>> A central problem is that statistics are often produced as a
>>> multidimensional dataset, where our topics are only single indices on
>>> one of the dimensions. We can extract the relevant data, but it is
>>> probably better to make a kind of composite key into the dataset to
>>> identify the relevant stuff about our topic. That key can be stored as
>>> a table-specific statement in Wikidata, and with a little bit of
>>> planning it can be statistics-specific or even bureau-specific.
>>> 
>>> [1] https://ssb.no/en/
>>> [2] http://json-stat.org/
>>> [3] 
>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Import_and_visualize_census_data
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Joe Filceolaire <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hypercubes and csv flat files belong in commons in my opinion  (commons 
>>> > may
>>> > have a different opinion ). That's if we even want to store a copy.
>>> >
>>> > This source data should then be translated into wikidata triples and
>>> > statements and imported into wikidata items.
>>> >
>>> > The statements in wikidata are then used to generate lists and tables and
>>> > graphs and info graphics in wikipedia.
>>> >
>>> > At least that's how I see it
>>> >
>>> > Joe
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 17:00 Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> I have used the CBS website to compile my own statistics for research.
>>> >> Their data is completely available online as far as I know and you can
>>> >> download the queries you run on the fly in .csv file format, or text or
>>> >> excel. They have various data tables depending on what you find 
>>> >> interesting
>>> >> and complete tables of historical data is also available. That said, I 
>>> >> think
>>> >> any pilot project would need to start with their publications, which are
>>> >> also available online. These can be freely used as sources for 
>>> >> statements.
>>> >> Interesting data for Wikidata could be population statistics of major 
>>> >> cities
>>> >> per century or employment statistics per city per century and so forth. 
>>> >> See
>>> >> CBS.nl
>>> >>
>>> >> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Gerard Meijssen
>>> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Hoi,
>>> >>> As far as I am concerned, data that is available on the web is fine if
>>> >>> you use data on the web. It makes no difference when the data is to be 
>>> >>> used
>>> >>> in the context of the WMF.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> When the CBS shares data with us in Wikidata, it makes the data 
>>> >>> available
>>> >>> in Wikipedia.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> It is why I would like for something small, a pilot project something
>>> >>> where we can build on.
>>> >>> Thanks,
>>> >>>      GerardM
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On 6 August 2015 at 17:23, Thad Guidry <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Netherlands Statistics should just post the data on the web...so that
>>> >>>> anyone can use its "Linked Data".
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> And actually, CSV on the Web is now a reality (no longer a need for
>>> >>>> XBRL)
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vocabs/2015Jul/0016.html
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> As DanBri notes in his P.S. at the bottom of the above link..."... the
>>> >>>> ability (in the csv2rdf doc) to map from
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> rows in a table via templates into RDF triples....is very powerful."
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Thad
>>> >>>> +ThadGuidry
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