[Wikidata-l] datawikis?

[JFC Morfin]

At 09:20 09/04/2012, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>Hoi,
>First things first ... that is getting Wikidata to work for its 
>initial purposes. Automated updates from elsewhere are nice but 
>introduce a complete new set of issues including reliability.

I agree fist thing first. It seens that in a network centric world 
the holistic aspects should come first. New projects necessarily come 
in a context they depend on and they are networked with. They have to 
be in osmosis with their context; and its possible futures, and 
therefore designed for it. Foreign (whiich do not have necessarily to 
be automated) batch updtes are part of their environment as well as 
users individual updates. The interest of a networked datawikis 
approach is that requirements can be distributed and therefore 
Wikidata specifications to be simpler, as long as they are supported 
by a common generic basis and an interchange protocol. The Dublin 
Core results from OCLC networking in the late 70s. The W3C did not 
start in thinking of semantic registries but of a semantic web. The 
IRI are universal. JSON is open and universal. Denny does not even 
understand what my own project basics mean, howver we can easily meet 
on a JSON based protocol. Why, for example, to enter geographic 
coordinates or linguistic tables manually?

For example, I look in vain for a single table quiving me the name, 
value, characteristics, and 32x32 bits graphic of every ISO 10646 
code poiint. If someone makes it, it should result in an easy batch 
transfer, supported (both ways) by an authoritative decision. Not by 
millions of human error prone manual entries. For the time being I 
did not see discuss the position of the huge amount of new entries 
not being validated yet. If I enter that ice melts at 5°C, will that 
be immediately dessiminated or will be in stand-by somewhere until approved?

jfc


>Thanks,
>Â  Â  Â Gerard
>
>On 9 April 2012 03:25, JFC Morfin 
><<mailto:jefsey at jefsey.com>jefsey at jefsey.com> wrote:
>Is there an objection to the concept of, or cooperation with, 
>"datawiki" Wikidata compatible projects? I would define a "datawiki" 
>(as there are databases) as a JSON oriented NoSQL DBMS using an 
>enhanced wiki as a human user I/O interface. This would permit 
>BigData, specialized data, and graph sources to feed Wikidata along 
>their own data philosophy and collection/update policy. I suppose 
>that the main point would be an inter-datawiki interchange protocol 
>(RFC?) matching the datawiki authoritative operators' (the first of 
>them being Wikidata) requirements. I would permit projects at 
>different stages of R&D or with different main purposes in order to 
>cooperate with Wikidata.
>jfc
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