Hoi, OK so what is is LCSH and why is it relevant ? Thanks, GerardM
On 17 June 2014 18:05, Paul Houle <ontolo...@gmail.com> wrote: > So far as data types go I'd look at the structure here > > http://www.freebase.com/business/employment_tenure?schema= > > Something parallel to this satisfies the major requirements for > describing who was the Mayor of Where When; perhaps the Mayor of New > York is particularly notable, but sum total of significance of all > mayors surely is greater and enough to be notable. > > Of course an uncountable number of "composite concepts" that people > might want to reference that can be derived from a generic instance. > For instance, "Economy of Japan" might be a good LCSH heading, but > even the LCSH creates headings like that in a faceted organization > that recognizes that there is an "Economy of [place]" for any [place]. > If all of the useful composite concepts were materialized, you could > puff Wikidata up by orders of magnitudes. > ᐧ > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Tom Morris <tfmor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sad to see the Deletionists taking hold on Wikidata too. > > > > Tom > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Douillard > > <thomas.douill...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Yeah, there seem to be some cognitive dissonance going on here, it's > >> weird. > >> > >> > >> 2014-06-16 22:08 GMT+02:00 Derric Atzrott <datzr...@alizeepathology.com > >: > >> > >>> > That's certainly what the policy says. It's not what some admins > >>> > accept, though. > >>> > > >>> > A direct quote from one, from as recently as March this year: > >>> > > >>> > * The general spirit of the notability policy is that Wikipedia > >>> > finds [the subject] notable > >>> > >>> This was also the general vibe that I had gotten that informed my > >>> understanding of > >>> notability on Wikidata before someone pointed out that policy actually > >>> says > >>> differently. > >>> > >>> Thank you, > >>> Derric Atzrott > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 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 > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikidata-l mailing list > > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > > > > > -- > Paul Houle > Expert on Freebase, DBpedia, Hadoop and RDF > (607) 539 6254 paul.houle on Skype ontolo...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >
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