Dear Wikidata list, one of our big contributors, Bruno Belhoste in Paris, just gave me a weird question which I feel I cannot answer that fast.
We, FactGrid, are a Wikidata child and so it came that we adopted structures like the father/mother differentiation. Bruno's question is now whether it would not have been wise to just create just a "parent" option instead of the gender fork that splits the lineages. Let me insert his mail: > Dear Olaf, > > I have a question of data modeling in FactGrid concerning family ties. > We have one property for children (P150) and also one for siblings > (P203), but two different properties for parents: father (P141) and > mother (P142). The problem is: how can you get all the members of the > family of somebody? One have (1) to explore both the matrilinear trees > and the patrilinear trees at each generation to get all the ancestors > and (2) to get all the descents of these ancestors. It is very complex. > It would be much simpler to have only one property including the father > and the mother. > > In case we choose this solution, it would be easy to transform all the > triples with P141 or P142 into triples with the new property. What do > you think about that? Have you another solution for querying family links? > > All the best, > > Bruno I wonder what people with more data knowledge think about the proposal (which would affect just our site, not Wikidata...) (so: no worries, we can do experimental things without affecting our parent - I hesitate to speak of a father or mother - Wikidata). Best, Olaf Dr. Olaf Simons Forschungszentrum Gotha der Universität Erfurt Schloss Friedenstein, Pagenhaus 99867 Gotha Büro: +49-361-737-1722 Mobil: +49-179-5196880 Privat: Hauptmarkt 17b/ 99867 Gotha _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
