On 22/01/07, Domas Mituzas
<midom.lists(a)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