Editing User:Reversedragon/Embedding RDF in wiki pages (SeaTurtle proposal) (section)

== Wikibase representation ==

Wikibase already has an established RDF representation of its [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikibase/DataModel/Primer data model] for [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_query_service/User_Manual#Basics_-_Understanding_SPO_(Subject,_Predicate,_Object)_also_known_as_a_Semantic_Triple exporting triples] and [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing/RDF_Dump_Format creating large data dumps], as well as an official [http://wikiba.se/ontology OWL ontology] for some prefixes and data types. <small>(Warning: the OWL file may start a download.)</small> This is conceivably useful for the purpose of manipulating Items inside text pages.

Although Wikibase does have a [https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/php/docs_topics_json.html#json_fingerprint JSON] serialization format, this can quickly get unwieldy for purposes such as Entity labels. Ideally, if we are to store Entities in pages as text, we should make sure the representation of Entities more or less follows a similar design philosophy to wikitext, such that edits to an Item make sense in a page diff view, and so forth.