Hi there! My name is Ian Seyer - I am the project lead for a proposed Project Grant called Arc.heolo.gy.
Arc.heolo.gy is a wikipedia dump to XML to graphDB (Neo4j at the moment) engine. In its current form, it builds a database wherein all href links are parsed as Relationships. This allows for pathfinding between articles, and finding clusters of knowledge around a particular topic or article. The goal of the grant is to expand the possibilities of this tool - symantic parsing and relevance weighting using aspects of NLP, auto-updating when new dumps are available, and a generic 2d and VR-capable 3d visualization for networks such as this. I have longtime been a fan of the Wikidata project (originally a Freebase user), and want the feedback of the community to gauge what features you would like to see, which would allow for maximum interoperability. I believe there is a huge overlap of functionality there that could be very advantageous to explore. You can read more about the grant here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Arc.heolo.gy ps If you are interested in any aspect of this project, we are looking for volunteers to expand our team. -- ╭╮ ╭╮┃┃ ╭╮ ╭╮┃┃┃┃╭╮ ┃┃ ╭╮ ┃╰╯╰╯┃┃╰ ╭╮┃┃╭╮┃┃╭╮┃ ╰╯ ╭╮ ┃┃┃┃┃╰╯┃┃╰╯ ┃┃╭╮┃╰╯┃┃ ╰╯ ╮┃╰╯┃┃ ╰╯ ╰╯ ┃┃ ╰╯
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