RE: Wikidata

What about having different property names as follows?

{
  "@id" : "q7",
  "title_en": "Georgia_(country)",
  "title_de": "Georgien"
}

The selector path can be easily generated by a string concatenation and the
result would be much compacter. 



--
Markus Lanthaler
@markuslanthaler




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregg Kellogg [mailto:gregg@kellogg-assoc.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 6:21 AM
> To: Niklas Lindström
> Cc: Markus Lanthaler; Linked JSON
> Subject: Re: Wikidata
> 
> 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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>

Received on Friday, 6 April 2012 02:14:34 UTC