Yes, you're right. I know, for example, that Pundit is a tool for semantic annotation, and it would probably be a good candidate to start with. http://www.thepund.it/ (the won best poster at LODLAM, and are based in Italy. I met some of the staff and have already hinted about this possible feature). The also collaborate with OKFN.
Aubrey
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On 06/21/2013 08:00 AM, Aubrey wrote:
Another dream of mine is an annotator that could save "facts" in Wikidata statements. We could reald a newspaper online, or a book, or an article on a
scientific
blog, and highlight a short sentence, and this sentence would be a statement (Item has a Property Value), with a source (the original document). I bet this is not *so* difficult.
At first I thought you meant that it would be good to implement this in Zotero https://www.zotero.org/ , Annotator https://github.com/okfn/annotator , or a similar tool, to help a user keep track of their own favorite Wikidata facts. Now I understand :) that you'd like, perhaps, a client-side browser plugin or script that takes some highlighted text, offers the user a GUI to fix up the statement and source, and then feeds it into Wikidata. Am I right?
-- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation