Re: [Wikidata-l] What is the point of labels?

2014-06-06 Thread David Cuenca
Other possibilities (not necessarily all together): - new datatype label, with the value to be indexed as an alias - use qualifiers on label statements to add lexical data or to link with declination tables - consider labels internally as independent items, but don't display them as such On Thu,

Re: [Wikidata-l] What is the point of properties?

2014-06-06 Thread Jean-Baptiste Pressac
Hello, Concerning the use of owl:sameAs http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/#IndividualIdentity, it is used in dbpedia to link for instance http://dbpedia.org/page/Joseph_Hocking to its equivalent in Freebase, WikiData and Yago. If we refer to your remark, Markus, this is not an example to follow ?

Re: [Wikidata-l] What is the point of labels?

2014-06-06 Thread Michael Erdmann
David, I am not familiar with Wiktionary and its datamodel. But your summary looks like SKOS [1] would be a good fit. Also for your proposal to extend the Wikidata datamodel. In short, SKOS distinguishes between concepts (they carry the semantics ~ Q item) and labels (they are, well, just

Re: [Wikidata-l] What is the point of labels?

2014-06-06 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 06.06.2014 14:39, schrieb Michael Erdmann: David, I am not familiar with Wiktionary and its datamodel. But your summary looks like SKOS [1] would be a good fit. SKOS is a good fit for Wikidata data items. For modeling Wiktionary, LEMON fits a lot better http://lemon-model.net/. If you

Re: [Wikidata-l] What is the point of labels?

2014-06-06 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, For me referring to SKOS or whatever feels like an elaborate hoax laying the blame elsewhere. Labels are what items are knows by. They exist to identify. They exist in many languages and as we identify items by labels in many languages there has to be a way to deal with the differences

Re: [Wikidata-l] What is the point of labels?

2014-06-06 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 06.06.2014 15:16, schrieb Gerard Meijssen: Hoi, For me referring to SKOS or whatever feels like an elaborate hoax laying the blame elsewhere. Labels are what items are knows by. They exist to identify. SKOS is just a standard vocubulary to express the relationship or simple labels have with

Re: [Wikidata-l] What is the point of labels?

2014-06-06 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Does SKOS deal with multiple languages and the need to ensure trust all these labels mean the same? Thanks, GerardM On 6 June 2014 15:21, Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de wrote: Am 06.06.2014 15:16, schrieb Gerard Meijssen: Hoi, For me referring to SKOS or whatever

Re: [Wikidata-l] What is the point of labels?

2014-06-06 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 06.06.2014 15:24, schrieb Gerard Meijssen: Hoi, Does SKOS deal with multiple languages and the need to ensure trust all these labels mean the same? Yes. http://www.w3.org/TR/skos-primer/ Well, it *requires* that the labels in all the languages mean the same. How you ensure that is up to

Re: [Wikidata-l] What is the point of labels?

2014-06-06 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, That is so obviously plain wrong when you want to apply SKOS to Wikidata. When SKOS has this requirement it is useless in the Wikidata context. Thanks, GerardM On 6 June 2014 15:30, Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de wrote: Am 06.06.2014 15:24, schrieb Gerard Meijssen: Hoi,

Re: [Wikidata-l] What is the point of labels?

2014-06-06 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 06.06.2014 15:33, schrieb Gerard Meijssen: Hoi, That is so obviously plain wrong when you want to apply SKOS to Wikidata. When SKOS has this requirement it is useless in the Wikidata context. Oh? Any why would that be? We have stuff like de:Fuh --(means)-- Q12345 eb:Foo --(means)-- Q12345

Re: [Wikidata-l] What is the point of labels?

2014-06-06 Thread David Cuenca
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de wrote: SKOS is a good fit for Wikidata data items. For modeling Wiktionary, LEMON fits a lot better http://lemon-model.net/. Could you please elaborate on how to share the label between q items and the future lexical

Re: [Wikidata-l] What is the point of labels?

2014-06-06 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, That is exactly the point. Once you assume that they are the same you ignore the extend to which they are not. Many, many items have articles pointing to items resulting in labels that are not exactly the same subject. Thanks, GerardM On 6 June 2014 15:38, Daniel Kinzler

Re: [Wikidata-l] What is the point of labels?

2014-06-06 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 06.06.2014 15:44, schrieb Gerard Meijssen: Hoi, That is exactly the point. Once you assume that they are the same you ignore the extend to which they are not. Many, many items have articles pointing to items resulting in labels that are not exactly the same subject. And these are

Re: [Wikidata-l] What is the point of labels?

2014-06-06 Thread Daniel Kinzler
Am 06.06.2014 15:42, schrieb David Cuenca: On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de mailto:daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de wrote: SKOS is a good fit for Wikidata data items. For modeling Wiktionary, LEMON fits a lot better http://lemon-model.net/.

Re: [Wikidata-l] What is the point of labels?

2014-06-06 Thread David Cuenca
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de wrote: The software shouldn't know about special properties. A bot could know about them, and automatically add aliases. Labels and aliases are acting as special properties, just that we cannot decide which property

Re: [Wikidata-l] What is the point of labels?

2014-06-06 Thread Joe Filceolaire
Remember that we are also recording the wikipedia article names in multiple languages, which may or may not be the same as the label in those languages On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 4:32 PM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Daniel Kinzler

Re: [Wikidata-l] What is the point of labels?

2014-06-06 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 3:42 PM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: Could you please elaborate on how to share the label between q items and the future lexical items? It is not very clear to me what you have in mind. It's really too early to make all these decisions. We're still at least a

[Wikidata-l] Wikidata query feature: status and plans

2014-06-06 Thread Yury Katkov
Hi everyone! In the sources of Wikibase I see Ask library from which I conclude that we will have awesome SMW-like queries. Am I right? What is the status of query features and how will the queries look like when they are ready? - Yury Katkov ___

Re: [Wikidata-l] What is the point of labels?

2014-06-06 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, In a different conversation it was put like this: Wikipedia is what it is and Wikidata is what it is. This was in the context of assumptions. Thanks, GerardM On 6 June 2014 16:59, Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de wrote: Am 06.06.2014 15:44, schrieb Gerard Meijssen: Hoi,

Re: [Wikidata-l] What is the point of labels?

2014-06-06 Thread Paul Houle
There's another road to ontology of labels which is connected with the kind of roles that labels play in systems. One need is that a system wants to mention something or draw something and otherwise refer to something and it needs to know what to call it. Another need is that you have a phrase

Re: [Wikidata-l] What is the point of labels?

2014-06-06 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Exactly. Thanks, GerardM On 6 June 2014 20:57, Paul Houle ontolo...@gmail.com wrote: There's another road to ontology of labels which is connected with the kind of roles that labels play in systems. One need is that a system wants to mention something or draw something and

Re: [Wikidata-l] What is the point of labels?

2014-06-06 Thread David Cuenca
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: It's really too early to make all these decisions. We're still at least a year away from any significant progress towards Wiktionary unless anything changes. Until then we will have learned a lot more and a

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata query feature: status and plans

2014-06-06 Thread Jeroen De Dauw
Hey Yury, We are indeed planning to use the Ask query language for Wikidata. People will be able to define queries on dedicated query pages that contain a query entity. These query entities will represent things such as The cities with highest population in Europe. People will then be able to

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata query feature: status and plans

2014-06-06 Thread Joe Filceolaire
Well they can ask. As there is no real definition of what is a city and what the limits of each city are I'm not sure they will get a useful answer. The population of the City of London (Q23311), for instance, is only 7,375! Should we change it from 'instance of:city' to 'instance