On 9/13/07, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@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