We want to have new datatypes in Wikidata to support additional kinds of data.
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this discussion has raised the usefulness of a degrees-minutes-seconds datatype for angular information.
The quantity datatype can fulfill that well once precision and custom formatters are supported properly.
I don't know if that's true. Right ascension is peculiar - it is typically given in time units (hours, minutes, seconds, and decimal beyond that). Formatting could turn a numerical value (number of seconds, say) into the right sort of string, but how do you handle data entry? Ideally we want somebody to be able to type in values as they find them in an astronomical table, which would be in the hours-minutes-seconds format, not a numeric number of seconds. Is there any proposal to create a data entry formatter that could do that sort of thing?
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