<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:48 AM, yvecai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yvecai@gmail.com" target="_blank">yvecai@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I would find more logical to make links between databases with queries rather by adding external references in one or the other. The later looks like the poor man job (oversimplifying, I don't want to put down the great job done at Wikidata).<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I disagree. If the goal is to make separate databases function as one big normalized database[1] such that there is no overlap in data, then these inter-database references are, in fact, necessary.<br>
</div><div><br>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization</a><br></div></div></div></div>