Great tool ! The error detection is precious !

2015-10-22 17:31 GMT+02:00 Markus Kroetzsch <[email protected]>
:

> Hi all,
>
> I am happy to announce a new tool [1], written by Serge Stratan, which
> allows you to browse the taxonomy (subclass of & instance of relations)
> between Wikidata's most important class items. For example, here is the
> Wikidata taxonomy for Pizza (discussed recently on this list):
>
>
> http://sergestratan.bitbucket.org?draw=true&optid=s0&item=177,2095,7802,28877,35120,223557,386724,488383,666242,736427,746549,2424752,15222213,16686448
>
>
> == What you see there ==
>
> Solid green lines mean "subclass of" relations (subclasses are lower),
> while dashed purple lines are "instance of" relations (instances are
> lower). Drag and zoom the view as usual. Hover over items for more
> information. Click on arrows with numbers to display upper or lower
> neighbours. Right-click on classes to get more options.
>
> The sidebar on the left shows statistics and presumed problems in the data
> (redundancies and likely errors). You can select a report type to see the
> reports, and click on any line to show the error. If you search for a class
> in the search field, the errors will be narrowed down to issues related to
> the taxonomy of this class.
>
> The toolbar at the top has options to show and hide items based on the
> current selection (left click on any box).
>
> Edges in red are the wrong way around (top to bottom). This occurs only
> when there are cycles in the "taxonomy".
>
>
> == Micro tutorial ==
>
> (1) Enter "Unicorn" in the search box, press return.
> (2) Zoom out a bit by scrolling your mouse/touchpad
> (3) Click on the "Unicorn" item box. It becomes blue (selected).
> (4) Click "Expand up" in the toolbar at the top
> (5) Zoom out to see the taxonomy of unicorn
> (6) Find the class "Fictional Horse" (directly above unicorn) and click
> its downwards arrow labelled "3" to see all three children items of
> "fictional horse".
> (7) Click the share button on the top right to get a link to this view.
>
> You can also create your own share link manually by just changing the Qids
> in the URL as you like.
>
>
> == Status and limitations ==
>
> This is a prototype and it still has some limits:
>
> * It only shows "proper" classes that have at least one instance or
> subclass. This is to reduce the overall data size and load time.
> * The data is based on dumps (the date is shown on the right). It is not a
> live view.
> * The layout is sometimes too dense. You can find a "hidden" option to
> make it more spacy behind the sidebar (click "Sidebar" to see it). This
> helps to disentangle larger graphs.
> * There are some minor bugs in the UI. You sometimes need to click more
> than once until the right thing happens.
> * The help page at http://sergestratan.bitbucket.org/howtouse.html does
> not explain everything in detail yet.
>
> It is planned to work on some of these limitations in the future.
>
> The hope is that this tool will reveal many errors in Wikidata's taxonomy
> that are otherwise hard to detect. For example, you can see easily that
> every "Ship" is an "Event" in Wikidata, that every "Hobbit" is a "Fantasy
> Race", and that every "Monday" is both a "Mathematical object" and a "Unit
> of measurement".
>
> Feedback is welcome (on the tool; better start new threads for feedback on
> the Wikidata taxonomy ;-),
>
> Markus
>
>
> [1] http://sergestratan.bitbucket.org
>
> --
> Markus Kroetzsch
> Faculty of Computer Science
> Technische Universität Dresden
> +49 351 463 38486
> http://korrekt.org/
>
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