Can tabular data be currently saved as a series of statements within
wikidata? If so, how can I create such a series? Am I able to feed such a
series into a wikitable on some wiki?
2014-05-30 11:19 GMT+02:00 Joe Filceolaire <filceolaire(a)gmail.com>om>:
Simple tables that are in wikipedia:
* league tables with columns for games won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals
against, points, rank and rows for each of the teams in the league.
* election results with columns for votes for each party and seats won by
each party and rows for each region, state etc.
* population numbers with columns for each tab (races, religion etc.) and
rows for each census district.
In all of these cases I suspect that this information might be more useful
as a series of statements. These could either be broken up with a statement
corresponding to each column on the item for each row or alternatively with
all the information in the table on one item, a statement for each row and
qualifiers to each statement corresponding to each column.
What is the advantage to having this as a table instead?
Joe
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Jan Kučera <kozuch82(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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:
> Hi there,
>
> can tables be stored within wikidata database? I mean simple 2D tables
> like excel spreadsheets...
>
> Jan
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