On 4/17/12 11:32 AM, Dario Taraborelli wrote:
Shall we create a Wikidata vs {Freebase, DBpedia, YAGO} comparison table on meta (or enwiki)? There's a lot of valuable information in this thread (and I was not familiar with YAGO – thanks Fabian) but it's hardly readable. We would do a huge favor to the press and the non-technical community if we had a single place where the differences are documented. Currently, there's only one page about the relation between Wikidata and DBpedia. [1]
Lydia, any thoughts?
Not a "versus" style table. That sends the wrong signals when these services are fundamentally complimentary .
Kingsley
Dario
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/DBpedia_and_Wikidata
On Apr 17, 2012, at 8:08 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
On 4/17/12 10:32 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Kingsley Idehenkidehen@openlinksw.com wrote:
On 4/16/12 2:54 PM, Tom Morris wrote:
- the refresh cycle is every couple of weeks (ie much faster than
DBpedia but much slower than DBpedia live)
Why do you make the comment above? Are you not aware of the DBpedia-Live editions have existed for a few years now?
I think my text that you quoted answers the question since I reference Live -- or do I get points off for incorrect capitalization/punctuation?
three months>> two weeks>> minutes DBpedia>> Freebase>> DBpedia-Live (phew! spelled it correctly this time)
DBpedia-Live is instant.
By my calculations though, availability is actually 10 months, not "a few years." http://blog.aksw.org/2011/official-dbpedia-live-release/
Well you missed the memo re. the fact that we've actually had DBpedia-Live for much longer than 10 months [1].
Link:
- http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2010Jun/0262.html -- random post from a Google search .
Kingsley
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Fabian M. Suchanek f.m.suchanek@gmail.com wrote:
I also wanted to ask again on the relationship between Freebase and Wikidata: Freebase was bootstrapped from the infoboxes of Wikipedia,
Wikipedia based data from infoboxes is updated on a regular basis. It wasn't just a one time bootstrap.
but I think its main selling point is that volunteers can add and correct data. Thus, my understanding is that, both in Wikidata and in Freebase, volunteers would fill up structured, factual information. Is that right?
I outlined most of the major differences that come to mind. I don't think there's any one particular "selling point" and, in particular, the Freebase team has never really attempted to do much in the way of "selling" at all. I don't really think that there's any overlap or competition between the two projects. If Wikidata is successful, Freebase rips out their infoboxes parsers and gets cleaner Wikipedia data to import with less effort.
My intuition is that Wikidata will have a more principled approach, because it can build on the Wikipedia/Wikimedia culture.
To the extent that the Wikidata project is unsuccessful in changing the current Wikipedia culture, they'll inherit both the good and bad points of the existing culture. Personally, I could do with a few less "deletionists" and petty tyrants ruling "their" corner of Wikipedia.
Tom
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