Hello Jeroen ,
can i get from your words that this page :
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListDatatypes
is not up to date ?if so how can i get all the datatypes in Wikidata ?
but what i can get is list of datatypes available , these has to be the way
of representation of data (like the lower level ) not the semantic datatype
of the thing .
so it's either an item or string or common media file or time or
geolocation
string could be anything ( so time could be a string) , but there's a
defined lower level representation of common media files . so is it wrong
to represent it as string ,
thanks
Regards
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Jeroen De Dauw <jeroendedauw(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hey,
and it's DataType should be "Commons
media file" ? not "string" ?
The DataType is not specified in the JSON segment you pasted. It is not
stored in entity pages. The "string" indicates the type of DataValue, which
is a more low level concept. We have a limited set of these DataValue
types, and a potentially much bigger set of DataTypes build on top of that.
For instance the DataTypes "integer", "positive integer",
"percentage" and
"probability" would presumably all use the "number" DataValue.
another Question : should i usually rely on the
datatypes written in the
json dumps or should i build and index of wkidata
properties and their
datatypes to avoid such situation ?
If you need the actual DataType, you will indeed need to build an index
with the properties.
Cheers
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