Hello Jeroen , can i get from your words that this page : http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListDatatypes is not up to date ?if so how can i get all the datatypes in Wikidata ?
but what i can get is list of datatypes available , these has to be the way of representation of data (like the lower level ) not the semantic datatype of the thing . so it's either an item or string or common media file or time or geolocation string could be anything ( so time could be a string) , but there's a defined lower level representation of common media files . so is it wrong to represent it as string , thanks Regards On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroended...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hey, > > > and it's DataType should be "Commons media file" ? not "string" ? > > The DataType is not specified in the JSON segment you pasted. It is not > stored in entity pages. The "string" indicates the type of DataValue, which > is a more low level concept. We have a limited set of these DataValue > types, and a potentially much bigger set of DataTypes build on top of that. > For instance the DataTypes "integer", "positive integer", "percentage" and > "probability" would presumably all use the "number" DataValue. > > > another Question : should i usually rely on the datatypes written in the > json dumps or should i build and index of wkidata properties and their > datatypes to avoid such situation ? > > If you need the actual DataType, you will indeed need to build an index > with the properties. > > Cheers > > -- > Jeroen De Dauw > http://www.bn2vs.com > Don't panic. Don't be evil. ~=[,,_,,]:3 > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > -- ------------------------------------------------- Hady El-Sahar Research Assistant Center of Informatics Sciences | Nile University<http://nileuniversity.edu.eg/>
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