Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

2013-06-28 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi Daniel, Op 26-6-2013 20:37, Daniel Kinzler schreef: Am 25.06.2013 22:16, schrieb Maarten Dammers: I think that the technology of Wikidata would be very useful for this, but that the meta data should be maintained on Commons itself. Why? Because it makes sense that the meta-info is stored

Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

2013-06-28 Thread David Gerard
On 28 June 2013 18:16, Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nl wrote: In the long run we should probably get rid of the categories. Heh, that sounds like a proposal custom-designed to get bogged down in process. Best to let them fade away :-) - d. ___

Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

2013-06-28 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 28.06.2013 19:16, schrieb Maarten Dammers: Commons should be the interface to maintain the data. The actual data can be stored in a different location. yes, but it makes things easier to keep the meta data local to the primary data. think of dumps, etc. i see no good reason to *not* have

Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

2013-06-26 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 25.06.2013 22:16, schrieb Maarten Dammers: I think that the technology of Wikidata would be very useful for this, but that the meta data should be maintained on Commons itself. Why? Because it makes sense that the meta-info is stored in the same place as and maintained by the same people

[Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

2013-06-25 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Over the last year, we have seen some discussion about if and how Wikidata can be useful for Wikimedia Commons. One aspect of this is maintaining meta data as structured data. I think that the technology of Wikidata would be very useful for this, but that the meta data should be maintained on

Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

2013-06-25 Thread Juan de Vojníkov
Thank you for the information. Would it be possible to use Wikidata instead of subject categories? I mean the biggest problem to get more participant is category name on Commons are in English. Regards, Juandev 2013/6/25 Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de Over the last year, we have seen

Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

2013-06-25 Thread David Gerard
On 25 June 2013 15:58, Juan de Vojníkov juandevojni...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/6/25 Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de Over the last year, we have seen some discussion about if and how Wikidata can be useful for Wikimedia Commons. One aspect of this is maintaining meta data as structured

Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

2013-06-25 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Why not have tags (that are in effect references to Wikidata) they would in effect be searchable in any language. Thanks, GerardM On 25 June 2013 17:04, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 June 2013 15:58, Juan de Vojníkov juandevojni...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/6/25 Daniel

Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

2013-06-25 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 25.06.2013 17:19, schrieb Gerard Meijssen: Hoi, Why not have tags (that are in effect references to Wikidata) they would in effect be searchable in any language. Even though that is not explicitly stated, the proposal already covers that. Add properties like depicts or topic to allow for

Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

2013-06-25 Thread Magnus Manske
toolspam Complex queries on wikidata are possible to find what you want, albeit not with wikidata itself (yet). Meanwhile: Visual query builder : http://208.80.153.172/wdq/ API : http://208.80.153.172/api_documentation.html /toolspam On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Otourly Wiki

Re: [Commons-l] Proposal for maintaining meta data as structured data

2013-06-25 Thread Maarten Dammers
Hi Daniel, I like to focus on one thing: Where to store it. Op 25-6-2013 14:30, Daniel Kinzler schreef: Over the last year, we have seen some discussion about if and how Wikidata can be useful for Wikimedia Commons. One aspect of this is maintaining meta data as structured data. I think that