Friedrich Röhrs wrote:

"as far as I have understood Nadja Kutz and John McClure want the wikidata dev team to somehow commit to using ISO topic maps for the classification of the content of wikidata. "

No that is not what I want the wikidata to do. please read all my postings to this thread : Re: Wikidata, ISO and chembox, I know with this gmane system it is really hard to follow a discussion, but the wikidata team seems to love this. I was talking about the ISO contents.

I also wrote a reply to Luca Martinelli, but apparently this got lost in transmission/moderation.??? (i am not an official wikidata list member what ever the criteria for being such a member are)

I just try to warn wikidata people that is

I GOT THE IMPRESSION THAT THE ISO WANTS TO PUBLISH THEIR OWN MACHINE READABLE STANDARD AND THAT CONFLICTS WITH WIKIDATA MAY ARISE IN THAT PROCESS WHICH COULD EG RESULT IN LAW SUITS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (IN WHICH THE ISO WILL CLEARLY HAVE A FAR BETTER POSITION OR IN OTHER WORDS WIKIDATA WOULD BE SQUASHED IN SUCH A PROCESS) SO WIKIDATA SHOULD TRY TO CLEAR THE CONFLICTS OR AT LEAST GET AN OVERVIEW ABOUT WHAT COULD HAPPEN AND EVENTUALLY LOOK FOR STRONG SUPPORTERS. I DONT KNOW HOWEVER HOW MUCH THIS IS POSSIBLE AT ALL.

Nadja