I met with Aaron & Brewster at the Archive last week to discuss the
project. It could potentially serve as a central repository for
references in Wikipedia, which would a) reduce maintenance, b) allow
all kinds of interesting citation tracking & data mining tools to be
built. Right now it is primarily built for monographs but there's no
reason it couldn't support periodicals or other kinds of sources as
well.
The technology used, ThingDB, a structured wiki with a PostgreSQL
backend, seems very interesting & potentially useful for other
purposes. I haven't played with it yet, though; will try to get a
local install up and running & see what it can do.
There are now at least 3 reasonably mature structured wiki solutions
under active development (Semantic MediaWiki, OmegaWiki, & ThingDB).
There's also the proprietary projects (Freebase, Google Base, etc.).
Looks like there's a bright future ahead for structured data
collaboration.
On 7/16/07, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
URL forwarded from a friend who works at the Archive:
http://demo.openlibrary.org/
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