On 4/17/12 8:33 AM, Fabian M. Suchanek wrote:
I also wanted to ask again on the relationship between Freebase and Wikidata: Freebase was bootstrapped from the infoboxes of Wikipedia, but I think its main selling point is that volunteers can add and correct data. Thus, my understanding is that, both in Wikidata and in Freebase, volunteers would fill up structured, factual information. Is that right? My intuition is that Wikidata will have a more principled approach, because it can build on the Wikipedia/Wikimedia culture. Other comments are appreciated.
Yes, in a nutshell.
Freebase is a kind of Data Wiki just like Wikidata. Folks will create and manage data objects in both data spaces. Mutual benefits will arise from object co- and cross-references across these data spaces, thanks to the Web :-)
I see something like this:
[WikiData] -- (ProducingbetterRefStructuredDataFor) --> [Wikipedia] [Rest of the Web] .
[Freebase] -- (consumingContentFrom) -- [Wikipedia].
[DBpedia] -- (consumingContentFrom) -- [Wikipedia].
[DBpedia] -- (crossReferences) -- [Freebase] .
[Freebase] -- (crossReferences) -- [DBpedia] .
[DBpedia] -- (crossReferences) -- [YAGO] .
[YAGO] -- (crossReferences) -- [DBpedia] .
[WikiData] -- (leverages) -- [All of the Above] .
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