On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:48 AM, yvecai <yve...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would find more logical to make links between databases with queries > rather by adding external references in one or the other. The later looks > like the poor man job (oversimplifying, I don't want to put down the great > job done at Wikidata). >
I disagree. If the goal is to make separate databases function as one big normalized database[1] such that there is no overlap in data, then these inter-database references are, in fact, necessary. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization
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