Hi Lydia,

Specifically I'm keen to understand that

* [[wikidata]] is committed to build-out smw for provenance data (and ContentHandler, per SRF formats);
* [[wikidata]] is establishing a base grammar for everyone to share via Type, Tag, Subject and other namespaces;
* [[wikidata]]'s multi-language labels rquirement is met via TopicMaps, whose focus is scoping topic-names;
* [[wikidata]] is a transcludable repository of infoboxes, SRF graphics, indexes, etc. relevant to any topic.

thanks - john

On 13.06.2012 16:15, Lydia Pintscher wrote:

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 7:41 PM,  <jmcclure@hypergrove.com> wrote:

is the existence of PROVENANCE data in the Wikidata data model that distinguishes the two tools. Provenance data is at the heart of the web-of-trust, the top rung of the Internet architecture promulgated by the W3. So, if your view is that SMW is not for provenance data, while Wikidata is for provenance data, then how can I not conclude SMW is down-version? Why would I not toss SMW for Wikidata since they BOTH handle structured data?

I am not sure what you want to hear really.