I am not an expert of Wikidata but I work a lot in integration of databases with several middlewares or tools.

I think that the best way is to ask a solution to store and to download data in a format compatible with datasheets like CSV.

Excel is considered also a tool to do some basic analysis, but it can be connected easily to a data source (if well structured).

Excel itself is not a good approach to store data, so it's not a good solution to keep the data in excel format in a database.

Doesn't make sense to store a 2D tables in a database in my opinion because the data have no sense and they are not helpful to anyone.

They can be stored like a text file, but I would not imagine the series of errors that can be generated importing these data again.

Regards

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Jan Kučera <kozuch82@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi there,

can tables be stored within wikidata database? I mean simple 2D tables like excel spreadsheets...

Jan

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