Re: Wikidata

Then again, they need to relate other information based on language, for example a video or audio clip, so I think they may need to create per-language resources to contain text as well as other such resources. It might be modeled better using frbr:Manifestation.

Gregg

On Apr 5, 2012, at 3:21 PM, Gregg Kellogg wrote:

> This actually might make sense. I suggested the following markup, but find it doesn't really work:
> 
> {
>  "@id" : "q7",
>  "titles" : {
>    "en" : {
>      "@context": {"@language" : "en"},
>      "value" : "Georgia_(country)"
>    },
>    "de" : {
>      "@context": {"@language" : "de"},
>      "value" : "Georgien"
>    }
>  }
> }
> 
> It seems that our processing rules don't provide for @context within a value object.
> 
> If we had something like you suggest, with @container: @langmap, this would expand to the following:
> 
> {
>  "@id": "q7",
>  "titles": [
>    {"@value": "Georgia_(country)", "@language": "en"},
>    {"@value": "Georgien", "@language": "de"}
>  ]
> }
> 
> It's important for them to have a simple selector path, such as titles.en.value.
> 
> There's quite a bit of interest in using JSON-LD, if it can work. This would allow them to use a single representation, rather than one for RDF and another for JSON. Also, it seems that named graphs may be an important use case for them.
> 
> It might also be interesting to think if framing could come in handy, if there was a way to frame the data for "@language": "en", say, so that a developer could get the representation they want to work with.
> 
> Gregg
> 
> On Apr 5, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Niklas Lindström wrote:
> 
>> Great! I also stumbled across it, and noted the use of language as
>> keys. We've discussed that previously, with possible support by using
>> a special "@container": "@langmap" directive for a property. In case
>> they're convinced that this form is valuable for consumers, I think we
>> should revisit it.
>> 
>> In any case, it'll be interesting and great to see their usage align
>> and hopefully adopt JSON-LD!
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Niklas
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Gregg Kellogg <gregg@kellogg-assoc.com> wrote:
>>> I'll do that. As it happens, I'm talking with Wikia this month anyway, so they're somewhat related.
>>> 
>>> Gregg
>>> 
>>> On Apr 5, 2012, at 7:31 AM, Markus Lanthaler wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hey guys,
>>>> 
>>>> I just stumbled across this:
>>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Data_model_in_JSON
>>>> 
>>>> Looks quite familiar :-) Unfortunately I currently don't have the time to
>>>> follow that up and introduce them JSON-LD, maybe someone of you has a bit of
>>>> time to do that.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Markus
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Markus Lanthaler
>>>> @markuslanthaler
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
> 
>

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