Hi Luca, a)
as far as I have understood Nadja Kutz and John McClure want the wikidata dev team to somehow commit to using ISO topic maps for the classification of the content of wikidata. The Dev teams position is that how the content will finally be structured is not up to them but to the community once the technical means to create the structure are there. As far as the whole arguments about using or not using ISO goes, again as far as I have understood one position is not to use them because it would force other wanting to adhere to the standard to also pay for it (pay to get the documentation about how it works) and wikimedia somehow to pay for it too, while the other position is that wikidata should use it because its an "industry standard" and the money that would have to be paid wasn't all that much. Furthermore the argument is, is that if its not done, some copyright could be infringed (not the ISO one but some other). There are (IMHO) a multitude of topics about this whole thing, most prominent: [Wikidata-l] [[meta:wikitopics]] updated it's a bit hard to follow in archive because it stretches multiple months (starting points in case you want to read up) http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-May/000583.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-June/000624.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2012-June/000638.html [...] b) No one has yet identified as an attorney or copyright expert; on the contrary most everyone has said they are not. hope this helps, Friedrich On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Luca Martinelli <martinellil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > sorry but I think I didn't correctly got the point of the whole thing. > Probably, I was overestimating my English competence, or my > free-licensing competence, or both. > > So, without ANY intention of being rude, or even polemical, I would > like to ask: "what is this discussion about, again?" > > If I got it right, someone expressed his/her doubts about using ISO > standards in classifying data on Wikidata because of [this point may > be challenged, but this is what I understood] potential ISO copyright > issues. > > Now, the points are: > a) Is my guess correct? If no, what is the point this discussion is about? > b) Is there anyone who could answer this doubt, whatever it is? > > Just trying to follow this thread, nothing more. Thank you. > > -- > Luca "Sannita" Martinelli > http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Sannita > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
