On 3 June 2011 21:29, Paul Houle paul@ontology2.com wrote:
Note that much of this kind of information is already harvested from Wikipedia by DBpedia and Freebase so most of the issues involved have already been hashed out in that context. In fact, Wikipedia already provides the core of a knowledge base that people use to work with this sort of data.
The nice thing is that if it works through microformats, a lot of the Wikipedias' templates already do those. Software massaging may still be needed to make it glitch-free. But having an actual (rather than hypothetical) consumer for the data is a very nice incentive to get it all in order.
- d.