I took a look at that and was concerned about the plan to release a future data dump in the RDF/XML format.
Most people these days think of RDF/XML as obsolete and the future is in the Turtle family of languages. RDF/XML has various problems: it can't express all legal RDF statements and it is also difficult for humans and computers to parse. If you look at an N-Triples file you see triples, but you often have to think hard to see the triples in an RDF/XML file.
-----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Baron Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 10:08 AM To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata dumps
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Emir Muñoz emir.munoz@deri.org wrote:
Any idea if there is already some RDF dump of Wikidata or when will be available for download?
Please take a look at http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-May/002211.html and you can subscribe to https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/47714
(I think that's all still accurate. someone will correct me if not)
-Jeremy
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Thanks Jeremy for the pointers. And I agree with Paul about go for a more "friendly" and readable format to serialize RDF such as Turtle. Even parsing process will be more efficient reading line-by-line a large file. I liked the explanation given in the documentation about Wikidata/Development/RDF [1] using Turtle as syntax for the statements, is very clear. Anyway, looking forward to have access to those triples.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/RDF
On 05/23/2013 03:32 PM, Paul A. Houle wrote:
I took a look at that and was concerned about the plan to release a future data dump in the RDF/XML format.
Most people these days think of RDF/XML as obsolete and the future is in the Turtle family of languages. RDF/XML has various problems: it can't express all legal RDF statements and it is also difficult for humans and computers to parse. If you look at an N-Triples file you see triples, but you often have to think hard to see the triples in an RDF/XML file.
-----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Baron Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 10:08 AM To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata dumps
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Emir Muñoz emir.munoz@deri.org wrote:
Any idea if there is already some RDF dump of Wikidata or when will be available for download?
Please take a look at http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2013-May/002211.html and you can subscribe to https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/47714
(I think that's all still accurate. someone will correct me if not)
-Jeremy
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