when you say "wikidata is not well suited for lists data", you refer to wikibase or WDQS here?
the data:Bea.gov/GDP by state.tab above is certainly a good representation for efficient delivery (via json) and display of data. but inefficient for further data sharing without URIs. On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 9:08 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrak...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is a better alternative to storing lists - > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tabular_Data -- it allows you to store a > CSV-like table of data on Commons, with localized columns, and access it > from all other wikis from the <graph> and Lua scripts. > > A good example of it -- "per state GDP" page -- see graph in the upper > right corner. > > Page: List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP > Data: GDP_by_state.tab > > Wikidata is not very well suited for lists data, but tabular data was > designed for a relatively large (up to 2mb) lists. > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 12:46 PM, Marco Neumann <marco.neum...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> great I will be on site as well, so we will have a little more time to >> discuss this in detail. >> >> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Antonin Delpeuch (lists) >> <li...@antonin.delpeuch.eu> wrote: >> > Hi Marco, >> > >> > I agree that many of these lists and tables could be harvested (with >> > some care, of course). >> > >> > However, I don't think that the information they contain should go to >> > the Wikidata item they are associated with. This Wikidata item mostly >> > exists to store inter-language links, but is poorly connected to the >> > rest of the knowledge graph. This tax revenue and GDP information should >> > go to the country items themselves. >> > >> > I am working on the problem of extraction of statements from lists and >> > tables and will write a tutorial when the tools are ready. WikidataCon >> > attendees might have a glimpse of that in this session: >> > >> > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Submissions/OpenRefine_demo >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Antonin >> > >> > On 17/10/2017 12:07, Marco Neumann wrote: >> >> I have noticed a lack of actual data in wikidata representations of >> >> wikipedia list. >> >> >> >> for example >> >> >> >> List of countries by tax revenue to GDP ratio >> >> >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenue_to_GDP_ratio >> >> >> >> to >> >> >> >> List of countries by tax revenue as percentage of GDP (Q2529105) >> >> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2529105 >> >> >> >> >> >> is there currently a development in the wikidata community to >> >> transform these lists into wikibase items and last but not least >> >> produce RDF respresentations for WDQS? >> >> >> >> best, >> >> Marco >> >> >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikidata mailing list >> > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> --- >> Marco Neumann >> KONA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > -- --- Marco Neumann KONA _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
