Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF exports

2014-06-14 Thread emw
Markus, Thanks for the thorough reply! you can use SPARQL 1.1 transitive closure in queries (using "*" after > properties), so you can find "all subclasses" there too. (You could also > try this in Protege ...) I had a feeling I was missing something basic. (I'm also new to SPARQL.) Using "*"

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF exports

2014-06-14 Thread Markus Krötzsch
Eric, Two general remarks first: (1) Protege is for small and medium ontologies, but not really for such large datasets. To get SPARQL support for the whole data, you could to install Virtuoso. It also comes with a simple Web query UI. Virtuoso does not do much reasoning, but you can use SPAR

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF exports

2014-06-13 Thread emw
Markus, Thank you very much for this. Translating Wikidata into the language of the Semantic Web is important. Being able to explore the Wikidata taxonomy [1] by doing SPARQL queries in Protege [2] (even primitive queries) is really neat, e.g. SELECT ?subject WHERE { ?subject rdfs:subClassOf

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF exports

2014-06-13 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I do not mind RDF. I do not mind OWL. What I do mind is that people assume that everyone assumes that others know what it means and appreciate it as being "good". When people use an RDF tool that produces obviously incomplete and therefore incorrect information, it is beyond me that an impleme

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF exports

2014-06-13 Thread Markus Krötzsch
Gerard, You sometimes sound as if everything is lost just because somebody put an RDF file on the Web ;-) If you don't like the simplified export, why don't you just use our main export which contains all the data? Can't we all be happy -- the people who want simple and the people who want c

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF exports

2014-06-13 Thread Markus Krötzsch
On 13/06/14 15:52, Bene* wrote: ... Did I understand you right, Markus, that you leave out all statements which have at least one qualifier? Wouldn't it make more sense to leave out the qualifiers only but add the statements without qualifiers anyway? Because this would solve eg. Gerard's prob

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF exports

2014-06-13 Thread Bene*
Am 13.06.2014 11:08, schrieb Gerard Meijssen: Hoi, When you leave out qualifiers, you will find that Ronald Reagan was never president of the United States and only an actor. Yes, omitting the statements with qualifiers is wrong but as a consequence the total of the information is wrong as wel

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF exports

2014-06-13 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Joe, plain vanilla Wikidata is not informative. It provides statements in no particular order and it does it in a way where you have to scroll-a-lot to see it all. It takes tools like Reasonator to organise the data so that it becomes informative. With a little code it is possible to provide s

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF exports

2014-06-13 Thread Markus Krötzsch
Hi Gerard, As I said, I don't follow your arguments. Wikidata Query, for example, has also started without any qualifiers at all, and yet it was a useful tool from the beginning. Your feedback is always welcome, but there is a point when critique is no longer constructive, and when it is bes

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF exports

2014-06-13 Thread Joe Filceolaire
Never forget that even the full data, with all the qualifiers included, is, in most cases, little more information than what is contained in the lead paragraph of a complete wikipedia article. Wikidata will be useful but it will never replace the encyclopedia articles and will, I believe, be most

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF exports

2014-06-13 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Not really. What is being discussed is a tool that is external to Wikidata. Thanks, GerardM On 13 June 2014 12:37, Joe Filceolaire wrote: > I think it is a reasonable ambition that the 'preferred' statement should > always provide accurate information even when the qualifiers are miss

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF exports

2014-06-13 Thread Joe Filceolaire
I think it is a reasonable ambition that the 'preferred' statement should always provide accurate information even when the qualifiers are missing. For example, if we have population figures for various years and 'applies to part' figures for males, females, under 20's etc. then the most recent 't

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF exports

2014-06-13 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, There is a huge difference between being complete and leaving out essential information. When you consider Ronald Reagan [1], it is essential information that he was a president of the USA and a governor of California. When you only make him an actor and a politician, the information you are l

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF exports

2014-06-13 Thread Markus Krötzsch
Hi Gerard, On 13/06/14 11:08, Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, When you leave out qualifiers, you will find that Ronald Reagan was never president of the United States and only an actor. Yes, omitting the statements with qualifiers is wrong but as a consequence the total of the information is wrong a

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF exports

2014-06-13 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When you leave out qualifiers, you will find that Ronald Reagan was never president of the United States and only an actor. Yes, omitting the statements with qualifiers is wrong but as a consequence the total of the information is wrong as well. I do not see the point of this functionality. I

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF exports

2014-06-11 Thread Markus Krötzsch
On 10/06/14 22:50, Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, It is stated that there are no qualifiers included. In one of the articles you write that it is to be understood that the vailidity of the information is dependent on the existing qualifiers. What is the value of these RDF exports with the qualifier

Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF exports

2014-06-10 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, It is stated that there are no qualifiers included. In one of the articles you write that it is to be understood that the vailidity of the information is dependent on the existing qualifiers. What is the value of these RDF exports with the qualifiers missing? Thanks, GerardM On 10 June

[Wikidata-l] Wikidata RDF exports

2014-06-10 Thread Markus Kroetzsch
Hi all, We are now offering regular RDF dumps for the content of Wikidata: http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-exports/rdf/ RDF is the Resource Description Framework of the W3C that can be used to exchange data on the Web. The Wikidata RDF exports consist of several files that contain different