Am 18.03.2017 um 22:48 schrieb Bob DuCharme: > New question: when I see that https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData > says "This page provides a linked data interface to entity values", can you > tell > me what "entity" means in the context of Wikidata? If I was going to refer to > something that can be identified with a URI and described by triples in which > it > is the subject, I would just use the term "resource" as described at > https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/#resources-and-statements (and > remembering > what "RDF" stands for!) so I'm guessing that "entity" means something a little > more specific than that here.
The Wikidata (or technically, Wikibase) data model is not defined in terms of RDF. Have a look at the primer <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/DataModel/Primer> and the spec <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/DataModel>. Entitites are the top level elements of Wikidata. There are currently two kinds: Items (things or concepts in the world) and Properties (attributes for describing Items and other entities). Wikibase Entities are certainly Resources in the RDF sense, but so are some of the more fine grained components of the Wikibase model, such as Statements and References. You can find the OWL file for the RDF binding of Wikibase at <http://wikiba.se/ontology>. -- Daniel Kinzler Senior Software Developer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
