Oops! Accidentally hit reply instead of reply-to-all in my previous reply.
Others - please see a couple of short conversations below for continuity.
>> I didn't know about this project. Can you tell me a little more about it
?
AboutThisDay.com is a privately funded project run by a couple of
developers and started pretty much from our bedrooms. The first phase of
this project is a proof-of-concept piece for which we launched the beta
version only a couple of months ago. We are trying to wrap up a few bits
and pieces before we go live and yes – we need to prioritise our ‘About Us’
page J Check out our DBPedia announcement thread -
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29810506 for a bit
more background.
>> Is it based on Free Software ?
All our current data is based on the DBpedia dataset - the static DBPedia
dumps as well as the Live Updates - http://live.dbpedia.org/ (thanks once
again to the DBpedia community)
With regards to your original question about ranking the results, it was
the exact same problem we faced earlier in our project. As you can see in
www.AboutThisDay.com, for a given day you can potentially get thousands of
results. Using the category and year range filters, these results can be
filtered by a great deal but we still needed a way to bubble up the most
popular results to the top for quality and better user experience.
For this ranking challenge, we have come up with our own home-grown
popularity algorithm and here is your answer: After looking at various
proprietary ranking sources like Alexa and SEOmoz, we are currently
evaluating the Wikipedia page count statistics data available at
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pagecounts-raw/ for our popularity
algorithm.
Hope this helps.
PS: As always, we very warmly welcome your feedback reg.
www.AboutThisDay.com. Please also show your support by liking and tweeting
us in social media.
Cheers,
Kavi
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Stefan Seefeld <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/06/2012 03:34 PM, AboutThisDay wrote:
> > hi Stefan,
> >
> > >> My ultimate goal is to build a tool that anyone can use to display
> > >> historical data, similar to the HyperHistory Online
> > >> (http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html), but much
> > more
> > >> dynamic, and based on community (wikipedia) data.
> >
> > Sounds similar to http://www.aboutthisday.com :)
>
> Indeed, very much so ! I didn't know about this project. Can you tell
> me a little more about it ? Is it based on Free Software ? (The website
> itself doesn't seem to tell, unfortunately.)
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan
>
> --
>
> ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...
>
>
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