On 3 June 2011 21:29, Paul Houle <paul(a)ontology2.com> wrote:
Note that much of this kind of information is
already harvested
from Wikipedia by DBpedia and Freebase so most of the issues involved
have already been hashed out in that context. In fact, Wikipedia
already provides the core of a knowledge base that people use to work
with this sort of data.
The nice thing is that if it works through microformats, a lot of the
Wikipedias' templates already do those. Software massaging may still
be needed to make it glitch-free. But having an actual (rather than
hypothetical) consumer for the data is a very nice incentive to get it
all in order.
- d.