On 9/13/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
An idea to use Wiktionary or interwiki links to
improve image search
for Commons has long been kicked around. Maybe we could collaborate
with them to improve the Mayflower search engine for Commons? (Or else
ask them to index
upload.wikimedia.org and pay attention to license
metadata :)) After all, we supplied them with all this useful data for
free.
As you may know I'm also working on a project called OmegaWiki
(
omegawiki.org), which is a free content dictionary built with a
structured wiki. We already have 274282 expressions in many languages
of the world, and another three million or so in specialized thesauri
in the biomedical domain.
OmegaWiki has language-independent meaning IDs that could be used for
media tagging & search as well. We've put in a request for funding a
while ago for a project that would connect OmegaWiki IDs and media in
Commons. In any case, we'll talk with the PanImage folks about hooking
up their DB into OmegaWiki.
Erk