Speaking from DBpedia (not on behalf), we have been
always trying to find
ways to contribute data back to wikipedia and If licencing is the only
issue here I am sure we can make any necessary arrangements.
imho the main scepticism so far was "trust" from the WIkipedia community
to load data in bulk.
However, there are datasets of very high quality in DBpedia that could be
used for that purpose.
Recently we are experimenting in an alternative where people can manually
import single facts in Wikidata from the DBpedia resource interface.
Here's a recent talk about this [1] on the tech list. Any comments on that
are also welcome.
Best,
Dimitris
[1]
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 6:18 PM, David Cuenca <dacuetu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, I will answer with questions with more
questions...
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Gerard Meijssen <
gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
The questions are:
- would we advance a lot when we adopt the DBpedia schema as it is?
Which schema? All of them? Some? Article classification? Infobox
extraction?
Wikidata is going to be linked to the infoboxes in Wikipedia,
so the priority is to support those needs, not to replicate any schema.
- Would we be open to include substantially more data?
Which data? All of it? What is the reliability?
- When we adopt the schema, can we tinker with it to suit our needs?
Again, could you please give some example of what to import and how
should it be
adapted?
If the answers to these questions are yes, what
is the point in
procrastinating???
Do we have already all the datatypes that would be needed? Most of the
properties that are missing is because of the lack of "value" or others.
One other big thing of DBpedia is that it is connected to many external
resources. This will make it possible to verify our data against these
other sources. This is imho the more important thing to do with the time of
our volunteers. Doing the things that have already been done is a waste of
time.
The thing is that if those resources already are in dbpedia, we can just
use dbpedia as a bridge, that is how linked data is supposed to be... no
need to replicate everything, but of course, if it is worth replicating, we
can go through case by case.
Micru
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