OK so discoverability, makes sense. And that is already covered in this issue, so have a look and give your feedback! ;-) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214884
The other reason that other folks have is towards *validation*, although that might be an opt-in thing only later on, and that Phabricator issue hints about that in for a future issue. I think the reasoning is that its the "Wiki way", allowing multiple viewpoints (many schemas -> 1 entity and vice versa) of what constituents a class. I.E. My automobile class (Shex), might not be in total agreement with Your automobile class (Shex), but they can both happily say they try to describe or constrain instances of this: motor vehicle https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q752870 Thad https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/ On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 12:29 PM Erik Paulson <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't have a grand use case in mind. I was mostly thinking for > discoverability, so if an entity has a ShEx description, make it easy to > find. This would help to make it easy to see if an entity needs a ShEx > defined for it, or to quickly see if an entity conforms to the ShExes that > might apply to it. > > I admit that I'm still trying to understand exactly how ShEx is intended > to fit into Wikidata and what, if anything, it's hoped that wikidata users > should be doing with ShEx right now, but this seemed like something where > wikibase could be extended a bit to make the ShEx parts easier to use. > > -Erik > > On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 4:27 PM Thad Guidry <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Curious Erik, >> >> Can you explain the problem that you are trying to solve? >> Like what would you do with those links or relationships for classes >> represented as Shex? >> >> Thad >> https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/ >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 4:09 PM Erik Paulson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello - >>> >>> There's a list of the ShEx expressions created thus far: >>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=640 >>> >>> Is there any hope that wikibase could link direct to specific shex, so >>> if there is a shex for an item being used as a class, or if a wikibase item >>> is an instanceOf one of those classes, wikibase could link straight to the >>> shex? >>> >>> Similarly, if there's an item that is being used as a class, could there >>> be an automatic link that shows instances of that class? This isn't too >>> hard to quick copy some item numbers and write a query to do, but it'd be a >>> nicer experience to just click on a link right on the page for a class to >>> see examples of that class. >>> >>> Ultimately it'd be super-cool if you could create a new item as an >>> instanceOf a class direct from a class page like the Cradle tool ( >>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/cradle/#/ ) for anything. >>> >>> Thanks for everything that you've been working on with wikibase/wikidata! >>> >>> -Erik >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikidata mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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