On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Greg Bloom <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks - > > As an introduction: I'm working with local non-profits that service > low-income people in the District of Columbia, and one of the common > problems (which we seem to share with communities everywhere) is the lack of > a comprehensive directory for what resources (food pantries, public housing, > health care, etc) are available in the community. (We've written up a brief > about this problem here.) > > Later this month, I'll try to tackle this project as part of a research > residency. We have access to at least three large databases of social > services that we can try to merge together and make usable and > peer-productive, so to speak. I can assemble a team of social workers, > software developers, data geeks, and regular users. > > I wonder if the Wikidata project could be what our effort needs -- whether > our developers could experiment with your technology to try to merge and > open up these community resource data sets. If so, how would I go about > exploring that opportunity? If however the time is not yet ripe, you may > have other valuable insights for us as we undertake this experiment. > > Thanks for any help you can offer!
Hi Greg, That sounds like a great project. It'll be a bit too soon for Wikidata to be helpful I fear. Depending on the specifics of your project maybe Semantic MediaWiki is a better fit though. I recommend you have a look at it as well. 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 [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
