Hoi,

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

One advantage of DBpedia over Freebase is that there is a real close connection between it and the many languages it retrieves data from (more than a hundred). If anything, I would really appreciate it when Wikidata is much richer in data.. I just created a person who was head of state of Uruguay, there is clear information in the es.wikipedia and we could just have it when we look for the inclusion of DBpedia data..

Another thing to mention is that a new version based on the April dump is about to be released (I have been told).

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.
Thanks,
       Gerard


On 23 August 2013 16:15, Tom Morris <tfmorris@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:

I have been blogging a lot the last two days with DBpedia in mind. My understanding is that at DBpedia a lot of effort went into making something of a cohesive model of properties. Now that the "main type GND" is about to be deleted, it makes sense to adopt much of the work that has been done at DBpedia.

The benefits are:
  • we will get access to academically reviewed data structures
  • we do not have to wait and ponder and get in to thebusiness enriching the data content of DBpedia
  • we can easily compare the data in DBpedia and Wikidata
  • more importantly, DBpedia has spend effort in connecting to other resources
Yes, we can import data from DBpedia and we can import data from Wikipedia. Actually we can do both. The one thing that needs to be considered is that we need data before we can curate it. With more data available it becomes more relevant to invest time in tools that compare data. We can start doing this now and, over time this will become more relevant. But now we need more properties and the associated date.

I think reviewing existing ontologies/schemas like DBpedia (or Freebase) with an eye towards reusing them or incorporating pieces of them makes a lot of sense.  I wouldn't take them wholesale without review though.

Importing data from DBpedia, I'd be much more wary of.  It can vary greatly in quality depending on how it was generated.  I'd much rather see WikiData take Freebase's approach of quality over quantity and let coverage improve over time.

Tom 

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