On 14.09.2012 20:04, jmccl...@hypergrove.com wrote: > I'm particularly keen to know how this facility relates to fielding > application-level ontologies. > thanks - john
It doesn't, this is only about pre-defined "primitive" data types like "Number" or "Translated String" or, slightly more complex, "Geo-coordinate". The original implementation was discarded, the current draft is at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Data_values_and_types Once we have full support for free-form properties in Wikidata, we expect something like a "Folksonomy" to emerge, but since we don't plan to enforce any constraint based on a class system or similar, a true ontology in the RDFS/OWL sense is unlikely to appear. We hope however that the relations and properties we collect about items will be useful in building such an ontology in other systems. -- daniel -- Daniel Kinzler, Softwarearchitekt Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Eisenacher Straße 2 | 10777 Berlin http://wikimedia.de | Tel. (030) 219 158 260 Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
