On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Kingsley Idehen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/16/12 2:54 PM, Tom Morris wrote: >> >> - the refresh cycle is every couple of weeks (ie much faster than >> DBpedia but much slower than DBpedia live) > > Why do you make the comment above? Are you not aware of the DBpedia-Live > editions have existed for a few years now?
I think my text that you quoted answers the question since I reference Live -- or do I get points off for incorrect capitalization/punctuation? three months >> two weeks >> minutes DBpedia >> Freebase >> DBpedia-Live (phew! spelled it correctly this time) By my calculations though, availability is actually 10 months, not "a few years." http://blog.aksw.org/2011/official-dbpedia-live-release/ On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Fabian M. Suchanek <[email protected]> wrote: > I also wanted to ask again on the relationship between Freebase and > Wikidata: Freebase was bootstrapped from the infoboxes of Wikipedia, Wikipedia based data from infoboxes is updated on a regular basis. It wasn't just a one time bootstrap. > but I think its main selling point is that volunteers can add and > correct data. Thus, my understanding is that, both in Wikidata and in > Freebase, volunteers would fill up structured, factual information. Is > that right? I outlined most of the major differences that come to mind. I don't think there's any one particular "selling point" and, in particular, the Freebase team has never really attempted to do much in the way of "selling" at all. I don't really think that there's any overlap or competition between the two projects. If Wikidata is successful, Freebase rips out their infoboxes parsers and gets cleaner Wikipedia data to import with less effort. > My intuition is that Wikidata will have a more principled > approach, because it can build on the Wikipedia/Wikimedia culture. To the extent that the Wikidata project is unsuccessful in changing the current Wikipedia culture, they'll inherit both the good and bad points of the existing culture. Personally, I could do with a few less "deletionists" and petty tyrants ruling "their" corner of Wikipedia. Tom _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
