Dear Adam,
thanks for the pointer. The paper gives an overview of how to design a
wiki-based data curation platform for a specific target community. Some
of the insights could also apply to Wikidata, while other won't transfer
(e.g., you cannot invite the Wikidata community for a mini-workshop to
gather requirements).
What I did not find in the paper are numbers of any kind. How do you
know that they manage petabytes of data? I also did not figure out how
many users they cater for (e.g., they write: 'A small number of testers
we called the “seed community” were involved in the testing and
experimentation phase. This community generated the initial wiki
contents that could then be used to solicit further contributions from a
larger community of users' -- but I cannot find how big this small
community and this larger community were; this would be important to
understand how similar their scenario is to ours).
Anyway, good to know about this recent work. I will send them an email
to make them aware of this thread (and of Wikidata).
Cheers,
Markus
On 05/08/13 09:35, Adam Wight wrote:
Dear comrades, I just learned of a system based on MediaWiki which
shares many of the same objectives as Wikidata: collaborative data
storage and analysis, tracking of provenance, and facilitating
citations, to name a few. I'd like to encourage a dialogue with these
scientists, I do not think they are aware of your initiative, and they
definitely have valuable practical experience after seeing the
real-world use of their system. Currently they are managing several
petabytes of data.
Research paper by the site creators:
http://opensym.org/wsos2013/proceedings/p0301-sowe.pdf
Sorry I cannot link to their site itself-it might require an account...
-Adam Wight
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