On 3 June 2011 21:29, Paul Houle <[email protected]> wrote:

>     Note that much of this kind of information is already harvested
> from Wikipedia by DBpedia and Freebase so most of the issues involved
> have already been hashed out in that context.  In fact,  Wikipedia
> already provides the core of a knowledge base that people use to work
> with this sort of data.


The nice thing is that if it works through microformats, a lot of the
Wikipedias' templates already do those. Software massaging may still
be needed to make it glitch-free. But having an actual (rather than
hypothetical) consumer for the data is a very nice incentive to get it
all in order.


- d.

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