Hoi,

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.

What do you think?
Thanks,
       GerardM

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