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
Cheers Lydia