Re: [Wikidata] Turning Lists to Wikidata

2017-10-18 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > when you say "wikidata is not well suited for lists data", you refer > to wikibase or WDQS here? Wikidata is not good for storing list data, or any serial data. WDQS can produce all kinds of amazing lists via queries, but it's not a primary data storage. In general, it could store series d

Re: [Wikidata] Turning Lists to Wikidata

2017-10-18 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, What bothers me is that when the individual values correspond with Wikidata items or statements, we have to again include all the labels. It is not really effective in this way, Thanks, GerardM On 18 October 2017 at 13:35, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > The idea with .tab is to treat it lik

Re: [Wikidata] Turning Lists to Wikidata

2017-10-18 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
The idea with .tab is to treat it like a blob from wikibase perspective, just like an image. There was some discussion on importing it into wdqs, but that hasn't progressed much. The headers use nonlocalizable ids, Latin chars only, digits, underscores. But it supports titles--localized names for

Re: [Wikidata] Turning Lists to Wikidata

2017-10-18 Thread Antonin Delpeuch (lists)
I like the idea of storing tables in Commons, but for now I am still using Wikidata to store the lists I upload, because: * tabular data is not integrated with WDQS as far as I know * the tabular data format is quite poor compared to things like https://www.w3.org/TR/tabular-metadata/ * it is not

Re: [Wikidata] Turning Lists to Wikidata

2017-10-18 Thread Marco Neumann
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > >> when you say "wikidata is not well suited for lists data", you refer >> to wikibase or WDQS here? > > > Wikibase, per Daniel K. >> >> >> the data:Bea.gov/GDP by state.tab above is certainly a good >> representation for efficient delive

Re: [Wikidata] Turning Lists to Wikidata

2017-10-18 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
> when you say "wikidata is not well suited for lists data", you refer > to wikibase or WDQS here? > Wikibase, per Daniel K. > > the data:Bea.gov/GDP by state.tab above is certainly a good > representation for efficient delivery (via json) and display of data. > but inefficient for further data

Re: [Wikidata] Turning Lists to Wikidata

2017-10-18 Thread Marco Neumann
when you say "wikidata is not well suited for lists data", you refer to wikibase or WDQS here? the data:Bea.gov/GDP by state.tab above is certainly a good representation for efficient delivery (via json) and display of data. but inefficient for further data sharing without URIs. On Tue, Oct 17,