Hello Antoine,
just to add to what was already said:
a Qualifier in Wikidata is not a statement about a statement. In RDF
semantics, the pattern that we follow is not the reification of the triple
and then to make triples with the reified triple as a subject, as per
Hi Antoine, all,
I was also a bit puzzled by this. If you want more discussion I there is stuff
on Gerard's blog [1,2].
After some patient explanations of the kind on this list, I think I understood
what qualifiers are about.
Still I disagree with a part of what Markus said. Trying to
Hi Antoine,
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Antoine Zimmermann
antoine.zimmerm...@emse.fr wrote:
Hello,
I have a few questions about how statement qualifiers should be used.
First, my understanding of qualifiers is that they define statements about
statements. So, if I have the
Hi Antoine,
The main answer to your questions is that the data model of Wikidata
defines a *data structure* not the *informal meaning* that this data
structure has in an application context (that is: what we, humans, want
to say when we enter it). I try to explain this a bit better below.
Hello,
I have a few questions about how statement qualifiers should be used.
First, my understanding of qualifiers is that they define statements
about statements. So, if I have the statement:
Q17(Japan) P6(head of government) Q132345(Shinzō Abe)
with the qualifier:
P39(office held)
Hoi,
The head of state is defined on the state involved.. the head of state is
... the prime minister of Japan.
When Mr Abe is the current prime minister, you add office held Prime
minister of Japan on his item and you can embelish it with the start date,
the predecessor. For previous prime
