The data model is close to RDF, but not quite. Statements in items are
reified statements, etc. Technically it is semantic data, where RDF is
one possible representaton.
There was a decision choice to keep Mediawiki to ease reuse within the
Wikimedia sites, mostly so users could reuse their knowledge, but also
for devs to reuse existing infrastructure.
Some of the problems with Wd comes from the fact that the similarities
isn't clear enough for the users, and possibly the devs, which have
resulted in a slightly introvert community and a technical structure
that is slightly more Wikipedia-centric than necessary.
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 6:48 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
Hell no. Wikidata is first and foremost a product that is actually used. It
has that way from the start. Prioritising RDF over actual practical use
cases is imho wrong. If anything the continuous tinkering on the format of
dumps has mostly brought us grieve. Dumps that can no longer be read like
currently for the Wikidata statistics really hurt.
So lets not spend time at this time on RDF, Lets ensure that what we have
works, works well and plan carefully for a better RDF but lets only have it
go in production AFTER we know that it works well.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 28 October 2014 02:46, Martynas Jusevičius <martynas(a)graphity.org> wrote:
Hey all,
so I see there is some work being done on mapping Wikidata data model
to RDF [1].
Just a thought: what if you actually used RDF and Wikidata's concepts
modeled in it right from the start? And used standard RDF tools, APIs,
query language (SPARQL) instead of building the whole thing from
scratch?
Is it just me or was this decision really a colossal waste of resources?
[1]
http://korrekt.org/papers/Wikidata-RDF-export-2014.pdf
Martynas
http://graphityhq.com
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