On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:10 AM, David Cuenca <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear OL'ers, > > Some more clarifications adding up to what Tom said: > Me or Tom Johnson? > - Software: I suggest taking a look to the combination of Mediawiki + > Extension:Wikibase [1], which is the one used in the Wikidata project [2]. > Said extension allows to use a wiki as a structured data repository, which, > I think, it should be one of the main aims here. Wikidata is going to > include book records, but the scope is not as focused in books as OL, so it > makes sense to have a separate project and make as many modifications as > needed. > I think Anand's clarification makes most of this moot, but the mention of Wikibase makes me think we're talking about two different things. OpenLibrary has software to maintain it's book data in a structured wiki like fashion. That was never, at least as far as I know, something that we were talking about replacing. What was needed (because of a misunderstanding) was a place to have a publicly editable text wiki for use by the OpenLibrary community. Tom
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