Hey Phillip :)
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Phillip Rhodes
<motley.crue.fan@gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW, put me in the camp of "people who want to see wikidata available
> via RDF" as well. I won't argue that RDF needs to be the *native*
> format for Wikidata, but I think it would be a crying shame for such a
> large knowledgebase to be cut off from seamless integration with the
> rest of the LinkedData world.
>
> That said, I don't really care if RDF/SPARQL support come later and
> are treated as an "add on", but I do think Wikidata should at least
> have that as a goal for "eventually". And if I can help make that
> happen, I'll try to pitch in however I can. I have some experiments
> I'm doing now, working on some new approaches to scaling RDF
> triplestores, so using the Wikidata data may be an interesting testbed
> for that down the road.
>
> And on a related note - and apologies if this has been discussed to
> death, but I haven't been on the list since the beginning - but I am
> curious if there is any formal collaboration
> (in-place|proposed|possible) between dbpedia and wikidata?
Help with this would be awesome and totally welcome. The tracking bug
is at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48143