You probably mean Linked Data?
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:41 PM, David Cuenca <dacuetu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
While on the Hackathon I had the opportunity to
talk with some people from
sister projects about how they view Wikidata and the relationship it
should
have to sister projects. Probably you are already familiar with the views
because they have been presented already several times. The hopes are
high,
in my opinion too high, about what can be accomplished when Wikidata is
deployed to sister projects.
There are conflicting needs about what belongs into Wikidata and what
sister
projects need, and that divide it is far greater to be overcome than just
by
installing the extension. In fact, I think there is a confusion between
the
need for Wikidata and the need for structured data. True that Wikidata
embodies that technology, but I don't think all problems can be approached
by the same centralized tool. At least not from the social side of it.
Wikiquote could have one item for each quote, or Wikivoyage an item for
each
bar, hostel, restaurant, etc..., and the question will always be: are they
relevant enough to be created in Wikidata? Considering that Wikidata was
initially thought for Wikipedia, that scope wouldn't allow those uses.
However, the structured data needs could be covered in other ways.
It doesn't need to be a big wikidata addressing it all. It could well be a
central Wikidata addressing common issues (like author data, population
data, etc), plus other Wikidata installs on each sister project that
requires it. For instance there could be a
data.wikiquote.org, a
data.wikivoyage.org, etc that would cater for the needs of each community,
that I predict will increase as soon as the benefits become clear, and of
course linked to the central Wikidata whenever needed. Even Commons could
be
"wikidatized" with each file becoming an item and having different labels
representing the file name depending on the language version being
accessed.
Could be this the right direction to go?
Cheers,
Micru
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