OpenStreetMap <provides> an API interface to their Software and Database.
OpenStreetMap is an Organization.
It provides things. It has things.
One thing is Software. OpenStreeMap Maps and DB.
Another thing is the Software provides an API interface to retrieve data
from that Software.
Looks like Wikidata does NOT currently provide a nice proper property to
say "provides API".
Ideally, it would also be shown as a "see also" here:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2699
An API typically "uses" a Protocol
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2700
another view would be to say that the API doesn't "use" a Protocol, but
instead that a user communicates with an API through a Protocol.
Also, the "OpenStreetMap API" can be "used by" other Organizations
and
Software
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1535
I would avoid using subclass ... you could say "part of" ... but then it
gets lost in the shuffle with Sparql queries because there no easy way to
see just API Providers versus Parts of Organizations which could be
anything.
It would be much better and way cooler to easily list and see all the
organizations that "provide API" and even then filter on those API's by
different criteria and categories.
Thad
+ThadGuidry <https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry>
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Loic Dachary <loic(a)dachary.org> wrote:
Hi,
An API such as the OpenStreetMap API (
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25822543 ) is a subclass of the API item
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16519, it makes sense to me that the
OpenStreetMap API is a part of (
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P361 ) OpenStreetmap (
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q936 ).
Another way of looking at it would be to have an "API" property which
would link OpenStreetmap to its API. I'm new to wikidata and would very
much appreciate your advice on this.
Cheers
--
Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre
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