Wikidata/Notes

The development of Wikidata will require a number of design decisions that are not trivial. The following notes describe the problems and the current thoughts on how to solve them. They also serve as a request for comments and discussions. Often the solutions are not perfect, in some cases they cannot be, but we hope that the input of the community can considerably improve them. We also hope that the explicit reasoning for or against certain solutions might provide insights for developers in a similar situation.

Some of the following descriptions are overly technical. I hope that they get more understandable over time.

• URI scheme - Which URIs to choose for the entities described in Wikidata
• DBpedia and Wikidata - On the relationship of DBpedia and Wikidata

Further to be written:

• Sources - How to export and model provenance
• Export formats - Which export formats should be supported, how should they be used, what exactly should they export?
• Multilingual data - How to export multilingual data efficiently
• Parametrized data - How to export and model parametrized data