On 4/8/12 9:25 PM, JFC Morfin wrote:
Is there an objection to the concept of, or cooperation with, "datawiki" Wikidata compatible projects? I would define a "datawiki" (as there are databases) as a JSON oriented NoSQL DBMS using an enhanced wiki as a human user I/O interface.
Why are you turning a the term "DataWiki" into something so narrow?
A DataWiki is simply the application of Wiki concepts to Data re. Create, Update, and Delete operation.
There are quite a number of DataWiki that have been in existence in the Linked Data realm long before Wikidata. It just so happens that Wikidata is potentially another fine example of the DataWiki concept at Web scale.
This would permit BigData, specialized data, and graph sources to feed Wikidata along their own data philosophy and collection/update policy.
It doesn't need to permit anything re. BigData. Eventually, folks will understand that BigData agility is inextricably linked to the concept of DataWikis.
I suppose that the main point would be an inter-datawiki interchange protocol (RFC?) matching the datawiki authoritative operators' (the first of them being Wikidata) requirements.
No, you already have HTTP, REST patterns, SPARQL Protocol for Updates, Inserts, and Deletions, SPARQL Graph Update Protocol etc..
I would permit projects at different stages of R&D or with different main purposes in order to cooperate with Wikidata.
The Web isn't about permissions, it is really about the ability to "just do it!" .
:-)
Links:
1. http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2007/tab/tutorial/editing.mov -- a 2007 DataWiki screencast by TimBL
jfc
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