OK so discoverability, makes sense. And that is already covered in this
issue, so have a look and give your feedback! ;-)
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214884
The other reason that other folks have is towards *validation*, although
that might be an opt-in thing only later on, and that Phabricator issue
hints about that in for a future issue. I think the reasoning is that its
the "Wiki way", allowing multiple viewpoints (many schemas -> 1 entity and
vice versa) of what constituents a class. I.E. My automobile class
(Shex), might not be in total agreement with Your automobile class (Shex),
but they can both happily say they try to describe or constrain instances
of this: motor vehicle
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q752870
Thad
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/
On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 12:29 PM Erik Paulson <epaulson(a)unit1127.com> wrote:
I don't have a grand use case in mind. I was
mostly thinking for
discoverability, so if an entity has a ShEx description, make it easy to
find. This would help to make it easy to see if an entity needs a ShEx
defined for it, or to quickly see if an entity conforms to the ShExes that
might apply to it.
I admit that I'm still trying to understand exactly how ShEx is intended
to fit into Wikidata and what, if anything, it's hoped that wikidata users
should be doing with ShEx right now, but this seemed like something where
wikibase could be extended a bit to make the ShEx parts easier to use.
-Erik
On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 4:27 PM Thad Guidry <thadguidry(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Curious Erik,
Can you explain the problem that you are trying to solve?
Like what would you do with those links or relationships for classes
represented as Shex?
Thad
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/
On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 4:09 PM Erik Paulson <epaulson(a)unit1127.com>
wrote:
Hello -
There's a list of the ShEx expressions created thus far:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=…
Is there any hope that wikibase could link direct to specific shex, so
if there is a shex for an item being used as a class, or if a wikibase item
is an instanceOf one of those classes, wikibase could link straight to the
shex?
Similarly, if there's an item that is being used as a class, could there
be an automatic link that shows instances of that class? This isn't too
hard to quick copy some item numbers and write a query to do, but it'd be a
nicer experience to just click on a link right on the page for a class to
see examples of that class.
Ultimately it'd be super-cool if you could create a new item as an
instanceOf a class direct from a class page like the Cradle tool (
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/cradle/#/ ) for anything.
Thanks for everything that you've been working on with wikibase/wikidata!
-Erik
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