On Dec 9, 2013, at 6:32 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Edward Summers, 09/12/2013 12:18: Definition of active? The fact that there's no software development/investment doesn't mean it's inactive. Are there stats on users activity there and can it be compared in some way to ours as regards that kind of data?
That’s a good question. By active I meant a situation where OpenLibrary has the resources (and the interest) to write software to synchronize OpenLibrary with Wikidata. I was suggesting that Wikidata doesn’t need to take on the additional burden of writing Wikidata updates back to OpenLibrary.
The reason why I said the OpenLibrary dump loader should be able to run more than once was the assumption that OpenLibrary is being updated periodically by editors. Their latest dump was generated a week or so ago, which makes OpenLibrary look promising as an ongoing data source.
//Ed