On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Nicholas Humfrey <nicholas.humf...@bbc.co.uk> wrote: > Hello, > > This appeared on Twitter but I thought I would email as well and introduce > myself. I am the author of http://dbpedialite.org/, which I created as an > experiment, to try exposing linked data as RDF using the Wikipedia API. > > > The things I was trying to improve were: > > 1) Stability of identifiers - using the pageid in the URL instead of the > page title. This was a bit problem for us at the BBC - particularly when > doing off-line comparisons in our own databases. > > 2) Speed of updates - dbpedia can take many months to update. > > 3) Reliability - we have had a lot of problems with dbpedia being offline. > > The main thing that the BBC needs is the stable identifiers - so that we can > link to other systems both internal and external. We don't actually use the > data from dbpedia (at the moment). > > > As such Wikidata already provides all the functionality that we need! I > think it is just a matter of time until the topic coverage is good enough. > We are currently working on adding all of the UK Members of Parliament and > Constituencies to Wikidata - which is something that we hope to use in a > prototype. > > I plan to change dbpedialite to use Wikidata identifiers in URLs in the not > too distant future: > > http://dbpedialite.org/things/Q192 > > And then if/when wikidata.org supports RDF formats, I will probably turn it > off.
Thanks for the update and the work you put into this, Nicholas. Let me know if you need any help from the Wikidata-side. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
