I am forwarding the 3 previous mails from the old wikidata mailing list in order to preserve them.<div>Denny<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Martynas Jusevicius</b> <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:martynas@graphity.org">martynas@graphity.org</a>&gt;</span><br>
Date: 2012/2/13<br>Subject: [Wikidata] Wikidata + Graphity<br>To: <a href="mailto:wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org">wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br><br><br>Hey list,<br>
<br>
I just came across the Wikidata project and was excited to see that we<br>
share pretty much the same goals.<br>
<br>
After seeing the Wikimania video and reading the technical proposal, I<br>
think choosing any other data model than RDF would be a mistake.<br>
DBPedia has done a lot in this area (as I&#39;m sure you must known) and<br>
failing to build on this work would be a bad start for Wikidata. There<br>
is no need to invent new models and APIs, RDF and SPARQL are standard<br>
and proven tools.<br>
Also, implementation-wise I would suggest scrapping any wiki-based<br>
software (Semantic)MediaWiki and build a fresh generic RDF-based<br>
platform.<br>
<br>
Hereby I want to present to you Graphity which is an open-source<br>
generic Linked Data management platform, found at <a href="http://graphity.org" target="_blank">http://graphity.org</a>.<br>
We just released v1.0.0 for PHP which supports JAX-RS annotations for<br>
RESTful APIs and lightweight RDF object API very similar to Jena&#39;s.<br>
I hope you can find some of our code useful or even contribute to it.<br>
If you find it interesting, we can provide more documentation and/or<br>
support.<br>
<br>
Java version is on the way, as well as the most important component -<br>
generic Linked Data browser. It will implement most of the technical<br>
requirements specified in the Wikidata proposal. A prototype for O3.6<br>
extension can be seen here:<br>
<a href="http://semanticreports.com" target="_blank">http://semanticreports.com</a><br>
<br>
The platform was presented at W3C Linked Enterprise Data workshop last year:<br>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/09/LinkedData/" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/2011/09/LinkedData/</a><br>
Here is the position paper and the presentation slides:<br>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/09/LinkedData/ledp2011_submission_1.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/2011/09/LinkedData/ledp2011_submission_1.pdf</a><br>
<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/seporaitis/graphity-generic-linked-data-platform" target="_blank">http://www.slideshare.net/seporaitis/graphity-generic-linked-data-platform</a><br>
<br>
The platform is production-ready: it is running of the biggest<br>
scandinavian entertainment websites <a href="http://heltnormalt.dk" target="_blank">http://heltnormalt.dk</a> (danish<br>
successor of <a href="http://wulffmorgenthaler.de" target="_blank">http://wulffmorgenthaler.de</a>).<br>
<br>
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/linked-data-api/" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/linked-data-api/</a><br>
<br>
Martynas Jusevicius<br>
<a href="http://twitter.com/pumba_lt" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/pumba_lt</a><br>
<a href="http://graphity.org" target="_blank">http://graphity.org</a><br>
<br>
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