Hi Martynas, On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 02:08, Martynas Jusevicius <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey list, > > I just came across the Wikidata project and was excited to see that we > share pretty much the same goals.
Excellent! > After seeing the Wikimania video and reading the technical proposal, I > think choosing any other data model than RDF would be a mistake. > DBPedia has done a lot in this area (as I'm sure you must known) and > failing to build on this work would be a bad start for Wikidata. There > is no need to invent new models and APIs, RDF and SPARQL are standard > and proven tools. > Also, implementation-wise I would suggest scrapping any wiki-based > software (Semantic)MediaWiki and build a fresh generic RDF-based > platform. > > Hereby I want to present to you Graphity which is an open-source > generic Linked Data management platform, found at http://graphity.org. > We just released v1.0.0 for PHP which supports JAX-RS annotations for > RESTful APIs and lightweight RDF object API very similar to Jena's. > I hope you can find some of our code useful or even contribute to it. > If you find it interesting, we can provide more documentation and/or > support. > > Java version is on the way, as well as the most important component - > generic Linked Data browser. It will implement most of the technical > requirements specified in the Wikidata proposal. A prototype for O3.6 > extension can be seen here: > http://semanticreports.com > > The platform was presented at W3C Linked Enterprise Data workshop last year: > http://www.w3.org/2011/09/LinkedData/ > Here is the position paper and the presentation slides: > http://www.w3.org/2011/09/LinkedData/ledp2011_submission_1.pdf > http://www.slideshare.net/seporaitis/graphity-generic-linked-data-platform > > The platform is production-ready: it is running of the biggest > scandinavian entertainment websites http://heltnormalt.dk (danish > successor of http://wulffmorgenthaler.de). > > http://code.google.com/p/linked-data-api/ Thanks for the heads-up. I'll make sure this is looked at and considered. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Eisenacher Straße 2 10777 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 [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
