Hi, I will answer with questions with more questions...

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:

Hoi,

The questions are:
would we advance a lot when we adopt the DBpedia schema as it is?

Which schema? All of them? Some? Article classification? Infobox extraction? Wikidata is going to be linked to the infoboxes in Wikipedia, so the priority is to support those needs, not to replicate any schema.

Would we be open to include substantially more data?

Which data? All of it? What is the reliability?

When we adopt the schema, can we tinker with it to suit our needs?

Again, could you please give some example of what to import and how should it be adapted?

If the answers to these questions are yes, what is the point in procrastinating???

Do we have already all the datatypes that would be needed? Most of the properties that are missing is because of the lack of "value" or others.

One other big thing of DBpedia is that it is connected to many external resources. This will make it possible to verify our data against these other sources. This is imho the more important thing to do with the time of our volunteers. Doing the things that have already been done is a waste of time.

The thing is that if those resources already are in dbpedia, we can just use dbpedia as a bridge, that is how linked data is supposed to be... no need to replicate everything, but of course, if it is worth replicating, we can go through case by case.

Micru