On Wednesday, 2 January 2013 at 11:32, Dan Brickley wrote:
Anyway this is really just a quick mail to ask: is there any prospect that this enriched metadata linking Your Painting author IDs to Wikipedia could find it's way back into the original BBC pages too? Ideally marked up in RDFa with schema.org (http://schema.org) vocabulary? I'd love to see all this structured information accessible via the likes of wikidata/dbpedia/freebase.
Much as I'd like it to be the case that Wikipedia embraced RDFa and the web of linked data, it seems unlikely at the moment.
I'm hoping that Wikidata might ease the Wikimedia community in to trying the very tasty Semantic Web Kool-Aid®.
VIAF was a first, initial stab towards richly linking Wikipedia together with other linked data on the web. Hopefully it won't be the last.
-- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/