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(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote: > 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