We would be not reinventing, but reusing Linked Data principles when we provide links to external authorities using owl:sameAs and similar properties in our RDF export.
Hey Danny,
just like I anticipated -- Wikidata seems to be determined to reinvent
not only RDF, but also Linked Data...
Martynas
graphity.org
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Denny Vrandečić
<denny.vrandecic@wikimedia.de> wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> thanks, we were not aware of that WikiProject.
>
> Would it be sufficient if we allowed to choose, for every item in Wikidata,
> an identifier scheme or authority (like IMDB, PubChem, ICD11, etc., as per
> your list) and an external ID, so that the item can be identified within the
> external scheme? I think that Wikidata will provide the stable identifiers
> that you seek.
>
> Does that make sense? Is the project active? Do we want to discuss? Will
> someone be at Wikimania?
>
> Cheers,
> Denny
>
>
>
> 2012/5/20 Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
>>
>> I've posted some thoughts, at:
>>
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Unique_Identifiers#Time_to_move_forward
>>
>> What do you think? How do we relate that project to WikiData? Or they
>> too different?
>>
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