On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Ted Thibodeau Jr tthibodeau@openlinksw.com wrote:
One element I see missing from (or at least, unclear in) the discussion thus far, is how corrections or other changes are made to the data therein, and how changes made in one set are fed (back) to the others. In other words --
- When an error is discovered in data on service "x", where
are edits made to correct that data?
- If edits are made locally (on service "x") to content which
originated on another service ("y"), do those edits also get applied to the original source, and if so, how (e.g., automatically by service "x"; manually by the user; manually by service "x" admin team; etc.)?
I think information like this is needed throughout, and will help a lot in demonstrating the complementary nature of these various services.
DBpedia content, for instance, is not edited directly, but gets all its changes by digesting edits made to Wikipedia.
Freebase also digests changes made to Wikipedia (but it's not clear to me exactly how these are then acted on), but is also edited directly -- and I don't see a mechanism that routes such direct Freebase edits back to Wikipedia (or elsewhere).
Regards,
Ted
Editing will be possible in Wikidata directly. These changes will be visible in whatever gets its data from Wikidata, like Wikipedia. The rest is a bit outside the scope of this list.
Cheers Lydia