Rob Church schreef:
On 22/01/07, Domas Mituzas midom.lists@gmail.com wrote:
The concept (and code) for parsing the template information was written back at Frankfurt's Wikimania. The problem - how to efficiently index and query that afterwards.
I think we can only really answer that question if we actually plan the thing properly, and to do that, we need to know
a. what we mean by "metadata" b. how we would use it
It's all well and good implementing huge catch-all solutions like Wikidata and Semantic MediaWiki, but they're pretty much sledgehammer to a nut if we haven't identified example use cases for this data. Obviously, what we use it for will lead in to how our users access it, and from there, the all important queries I know Domas loves to optimise to hell and back.
Rob Church
Hoi, The functionality of "Wikidata" is being expressed better and better in OmegaWiki. Other example use cases have been identified as long ago as May 2005. Obviously the functionality that is being created is what it will be used for. It is currently feasible to develop the functionality to use OmegaWiki for the tagging of the pictures that are in Commons. And yes, Domas is always welcome to optimise queries.
Thanks, GerardM
http://omegawiki.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Using_Ultimate_Wiktionary_for_Commons