Dear all, FYI: a project proposal for creating a software toolkit to work with Wikidata data in external tools [1]. Sent to wikidata-l, but maybe it's also interesting for those working with semantic data here.
Feedback and support is welcome. Having email replies go to wikidata-l would be great, but don't let this hold you back if you're not on there. You can also post to the bottom of the wiki page [1]. Cheers, Markus [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikidata_Toolkit -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata Toolkit: call for feedback/support Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:11:11 +0100 From: Markus Krötzsch <mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> Reply-To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. <wikidat...@lists.wikimedia.org> To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. <wikidat...@lists.wikimedia.org> Dear Wikidatanions (*), I have just drafted a little proposal for creating more tools for external people to work with Wikidata, especially to build services on top of its data [1]. Your feedback and support is needed. Idea: Currently, this is quite hard for people, since we only have WDA for reading/analysing dumps [2] and Wikidata Query as a single web service to ask queries [3]. We should have more support for programmers who want to load, query, analyse, and otherwise use the data. The proposal is to start such a toolkit to enable more work with the data. The plan is to kickstart this project with a small team using Wikimedia's Individual Engagement program. For this we will need your support -- feel free to add your voice to the wiki page [1]. Of course, comments of all sorts are also great -- this email thread will be linked from the page. If you would like to be involved with the project, that's great too; let me know and I can add you to the proposal. The proposal will already be submitted tomorrow, but support should also be possible after that, I hope. Cheers, Markus (*) Do we have a demonym yet? Wikipedian sounds natural, Wikidatan less so. Maybe this should be another thread ... ;-) [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikidata_Toolkit [2] http://github.com/mkroetzsch/wda [3] http://208.80.153.172/wdq/ -- Markus Kroetzsch, Departmental Lecturer Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford Room 306, Parks Road, OX1 3QD Oxford, United Kingdom +44 (0)1865 283529 http://korrekt.org/ _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list wikidat...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60133471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
