Hi,
Through reports in the German Television I was made aware of the WikiData project. This sounds really interesting. I could also find the press announcement online. There was a reference to the European Union Project, which seemed to be instrumental to kick this off: http://render-project.eu, and I was surprised that such diverse entities were behind this: Google in Ireland, Telefonica in Spain, KIT University in Germany, SIT University in Austria, JSI University in Slovenia, and Ontotext from Bulgaria. The budget of Render is 4.4 Mio Eur, and the contribution from European taxpayers is 2.9 Mio Eur.
I also saw the first year presentation: http://render-project.eu/resources/presentations/project-review-year-1, and am wondering if and how the following use cases fit into the project.
1. Open Goverment Data There is a German Wikipedia article about this: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Government_Data. And also a website explaining it a little more: http://opengovernmentdata.org/. Will there be any liason of WikiData with Open Goverment Data?
2. Sports Results When I tried to edit Wikipedia first, i wanted to update some sports results of my favoured football club F.C. Barcelona. Unfortunately I failed. I failed as well to copy from another language, the table syntax was too complicated and it somehow seems to differ from one languate version to the other. Will WikiData address current sports results, updating it and make it available for all language versions of Wikipedia?
With best regards,
Andi.
Hi Andreas
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 1:14 AM, andreas meier meier.andi@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Through reports in the German Television I was made aware of the WikiData project. This sounds really interesting. I could also find the press
Hah! Nice. Do you remember where you saw it?
announcement online. There was a reference to the European Union Project, which seemed to be instrumental to kick this off: http://render-project.eu, and I was surprised that such diverse entities were behind this: Google in Ireland, Telefonica in Spain, KIT University in Germany, SIT University in Austria, JSI University in Slovenia, and Ontotext from Bulgaria. The budget of Render is 4.4 Mio Eur, and the contribution from European taxpayers is 2.9 Mio Eur.
I also saw the first year presentation: http://render-project.eu/resources/presentations/project-review-year-1, and am wondering if and how the following use cases fit into the project.
- Open Goverment Data
There is a German Wikipedia article about this: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Government_Data. And also a website explaining it a little more: http://opengovernmentdata.org/. Will there be any liason of WikiData with Open Goverment Data?
Possibly. If and how is one of the things we have to decide in the community.
- Sports Results
When I tried to edit Wikipedia first, i wanted to update some sports results of my favoured football club F.C. Barcelona. Unfortunately I failed. I failed as well to copy from another language, the table syntax was too complicated and it somehow seems to differ from one languate version to the other. Will WikiData address current sports results, updating it and make it available for all language versions of Wikipedia?
Yes that is one of the things Wikidata will help with.
Cheers Lydia
Hi Andreas,
assuming the original data is in a license that can be used in Wikidata, and assuming the Wikidata community wants this data in Wikidata, yes :) The use cases are technically feasible for sure.
Cheers, Denny
2012/4/1 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de
Hi Andreas
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 1:14 AM, andreas meier meier.andi@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Through reports in the German Television I was made aware of the WikiData project. This sounds really interesting. I could also find the press
Hah! Nice. Do you remember where you saw it?
announcement online. There was a reference to the European Union Project, which seemed to be instrumental to kick this off:
and I was surprised that such diverse entities were behind this: Google
in
Ireland, Telefonica in Spain, KIT University in Germany, SIT University
in
Austria, JSI University in Slovenia, and Ontotext from Bulgaria. The
budget
of Render is 4.4 Mio Eur, and the contribution from European taxpayers is 2.9 Mio Eur.
I also saw the first year presentation: http://render-project.eu/resources/presentations/project-review-year-1,
and
am wondering if and how the following use cases fit into the project.
- Open Goverment Data
There is a German Wikipedia article about this: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Government_Data. And also a website explaining it a little more: http://opengovernmentdata.org/. Will there be any liason of WikiData with Open Goverment Data?
Possibly. If and how is one of the things we have to decide in the community.
- Sports Results
When I tried to edit Wikipedia first, i wanted to update some sports results of my favoured football club F.C. Barcelona. Unfortunately I failed. I failed as well to copy from another language, the table syntax was too complicated and it somehow seems to differ from one languate version to the other. Will WikiData address current sports results, updating it and make it available for all language versions of Wikipedia?
Yes that is one of the things Wikidata will help with.
Cheers Lydia
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