Markus' description of the decision for the limit
corresponds with mine. I
also think that this decision can be revisited. I would still advice for
caution, due to technical issues, but I am sure that the development team
will make a well-informed decision on this. It would be sad if valid
usecases could not be supported due to that.
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 6:51 AM Markus Kroetzsch <
markus.kroetzsch(a)tu-dresden.de> wrote:
On 13.09.2016 11:39, Sebastian Burgstaller
wrote:
Hi all,
I think this topic might have been discussed many months ago. For
certain data types in the chemical compound space (P233, canonical
smiles, P2017 isomeric smiles and P234 Inchi key) a higher character
limit than 400 would be really helpful (1500 to 2000 chars (I sense
that this might cause problems with SPARQL)). Are there any plans on
implementing this? In general, for quality assurance, many string
property types would profit from a fixed max string length.
FWIW, I recall that the main reason for the char limit originally was to
discourage the use of Wikidata for textual content. Simply put, we did
not want Wikipedia articles in the data. Long texts could also make
copyright/license issues more relevant (though, in theory, a copyrighted
poem could be rather short).
However, given that we now have such a well informed community with
established practices and good quality checks, it seems unproblematic to
lift the character limit. I don't think there are major technical
reasons for having it. Surely, BlazeGraph (the WMF SPARQL engine) should
not expect texts to be short, and I would be surprised if they did. So I
would not expect problems on this side.
Best,
Markus
Best,
Sebastian
Sebastian Burgstaller-Muehlbacher, PhD
Research Associate
Andrew Su Lab
MEM-216, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine
The Scripps Research Institute
10550 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037
@sebotic
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