Ian, how do I/we get in touch with you directly? Thanks, --David
[email protected] On Monday, August 1, 2016, Ian Seyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Full disclosure: I am the creator of the Project Grant application for > Arc.heolo.gy <http://arc.heolo.gy/>, located here: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Arc.heolo.gy > > I hope for this to be a general discussion on potential applications, > criticisms, questions, technological recommendations, and community > discussion about a graph representation of Wikipedia. > > Currently, the project has a live Neo4j Graph database built and parsed > from a download of the English language Wikipedia from April. I have > temporarily hosted the database instance both on my local machine and a > SoftLayer server provided under a temporary entrepreneur credit. > > My goal is two fold. > On the backend: refine the parsing algorithm (I am getting some incorrect > relationships in the database), automate the parsing so that it updates the > database frequently, expand language support, and perform semantic parsing > to weight individual relationships to strengthen the ability to filter out > extraneous relationships. > On the frontend: I have done little to zero work here beyond pure > conceptualization. I would hope to use an asynchronous front-end javascript > framework to build both a 2d (d3) and 3d (webGL) interface to be able to > explore the database with a high amount of control and ease. > > If any of you would like to access the database for exploration, please > contact me privately and I will give you credentials. > > Any recommendations on parsing, hosting, visualization, or otherwise are > appreciated. Endorsements and Volunteers are also highly appreciated! > > p.s. I am new to directly engaging with the Wiki community, and if I > committed some faux pas in starting this thread please let me know and I > will do my best to correct it. > -- > ╭╮ > ╭╮┃┃ > ╭╮ ╭╮┃┃┃┃╭╮ > ┃┃ ╭╮ ┃╰╯╰╯┃┃╰ > ╭╮┃┃╭╮┃┃╭╮┃ ╰╯ > ╭╮ ┃┃┃┃┃╰╯┃┃╰╯ > ┃┃╭╮┃╰╯┃┃ ╰╯ > ╮┃╰╯┃┃ ╰╯ > ╰╯ ┃┃ > ╰╯ > -- David McDonell Co-founder & CEO ICONICLOUD, Inc. "Illuminating the cloud" M: 703-864-1203 EM: [email protected] URL: http://iconicloud.com
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