Am 07.03.2016 um 11:54 schrieb Markus Kroetzsch:
In general, the community uses several classes for
properties that could have
been used for UI organisation, rather than introducing new datatypes.
Technically, the main purpose of having a separate datatype was to explicity
model values that identify a resource (in the RDF sense, where resource means
"anything that can be identified unambiguously"), so we can apply mappings
(e.g.
to URIs and URLs) when exporting and displaying them.
Using the datatype for the UI structure is an attempt to kill two birds with one
stone. I think it's a pretty good start, but I agree that we should revisit this
once we have gathered some feedback. It would not be too hard to base the
structure on different criteria (well, depends on the criteria).
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Daniel Kinzler
Senior Software Developer
Wikimedia Deutschland
Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.