Well what I meant was just an ordinary
2-dimensional table (rows vs.
columns)... Excel was just an example to make it clear.
So I guess simple tables are not any roadmap yet right?
Further step would be an n-dimensional structures... arrays etc.
I wouldnt care about format.... CSV, JSON...
Jan
2014-05-27 14:24 GMT+02:00 David Cuenca <dacuetu(a)gmail.com>om>:
Please, leave your comments here too:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/How_to_deal_with_open_…
I've been gathering comments from several people, and in the next days
I will try to summarize these suggestions to be discussed on irc.
Thanks,
Micru
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> I am not an expert of Wikidata but I work a lot in integration of
> databases with several middlewares or tools.
>
> I think that the best way is to ask a solution to store and to
> download data in a format compatible with datasheets like CSV.
>
> Excel is considered also a tool to do some basic analysis, but it can
> be connected easily to a data source (if well structured).
>
> Excel itself is not a good approach to store data, so it's not a good
> solution to keep the data in excel format in a database.
>
> Doesn't make sense to store a 2D tables in a database in my opinion
> because the data have no sense and they are not helpful to anyone.
>
> They can be stored like a text file, but I would not imagine the
> series of errors that can be generated importing these data again.
>
> Regards
>
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Jan Kučera <kozuch82(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hi there,
>>
>> can tables be stored within wikidata database? I mean simple 2D
>> tables like excel spreadsheets...
>>
>> Jan
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