On 30.09.2012 11:59, Marco Fleckinger wrote:
Hi,
regarding an actual topic in Germany about publication of the timetable-data of
Deutsche Bahn (German national railway company) and their willingness of a
discussion with other Open-Data-Supporters it may be a good idea of providing an
expiration dates for Wikidata-records.
In their open letter to Mr. Kreil [1] they announced that it may cause problems
providing the timetable-data in an open way if e.g. anybody uses old data.
Or approach to this is to mark individual statements as "historic", while the
most current data is marked as "preferred". This is already necessary for basic
things like population numbers. However, I don't think we need to expire data
automatically - it should just be superseded by newer information.
-- daniel
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Daniel Kinzler, Softwarearchitekt
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.