Shall we create a Wikidata vs {Freebase, DBpedia, YAGO} comparison table on
meta (or enwiki)? There's a lot of valuable information in this thread (and I
was not familiar with YAGO – thanks Fabian) but it's hardly readable. We would
do a huge favor to the press and the non-technical community if we had a single
place where the differences are documented. Currently, there's only one page
about the relation between Wikidata and DBpedia. [1]
Lydia, any thoughts?
Dario
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/DBpedia_and_Wikidata
On Apr 17, 2012, at 8:08 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> On 4/17/12 10:32 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
>> 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)
>
> DBpedia-Live is instant.
>>
>> By my calculations though, availability is actually 10 months, not "a
>> few years."
>> http://blog.aksw.org/2011/official-dbpedia-live-release/
>
> Well you missed the memo re. the fact that we've actually had DBpedia-Live
> for much longer than 10 months [1].
>
> Link:
>
> 1. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2010Jun/0262.html -- random
> post from a Google search .
>
>
> Kingsley
>>
>> 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
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