| ArthurPSmith added a comment. |
@Yurik and all, I'm glad to see all this work going on, I was pointed to this after I made a comment on a wikidata property proposal that I thought would be best addressed by somehow allowing a tabular data value rather than a single value. However, I'm wondering if this might be best driven by specific problem cases rather than trying to tackle generic "data" records. One of the most common needs is for time-series data: population of a city vs time, for instance, economic data by point in time, physical data like temperature vs time, etc. The simplest extension beyond the single value allowed by wikidata would be to allow a set of pairs defined by two wikidata properties (eg. P585 - "point in time", P1082 - "population"). The relation to wikidata takes care of localization (those properties have labels in many different languages) and defines the value types (time and quantity in this case), and the dataset would somehow be a statement attached to a wikidata item (eg. a particular city) so that the item and pair of properties fully define the meaning of the collection of pairs. The underlying structure of the pairs doesn't really matter much. But there seems to be something missing here - I think it might be best addressed in wikidata itself...
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