On Thursday 01 May 2003 20:54, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Another aspect of this, apart from disambiguation, is
that identifying
all motion pictures as (film) or (movie), even when there is no
ambiguity, is that this "meta-data" could be used later on to extract
a portion of our data for a movie history project or similar.
I thought about this possibility too and think it has lots of potential.
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It'd be nice to be able to do a query and pull out
all biographies,
for example, or all countries, or all movies, or all dog breeds. Not
so nice that we should get all bogged down in debates about the
perfect system, but nice enough that we should think about how
conventions can help us move in that direction gracefully.
I agree. Categorizing the data, could also be useful for automatically
generating overview lists like [[List of movies]], [[List of mathematicans]]
etc. which are often incomplete and hard to maintain.
Perhaps the "meta-data" could be added in a similar way as it is done for the
international webpages. For instance on the page for "Javan Tiger" one would
add [[category:tiger]] in the very beginning. This information could be
expanded in a "wordnet" like way, e.g. see
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn1.7.1?stage=2&word=tiger&a…
such that the "Javan Tiger" would automatically appear in the "list of
mammals".
For what it is worth,
Marco
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Marco Krohn
Theoretical Physics
University of Hannover