[Wikidata] Re: Wikidata Query Service scaling update Aug 2021

2021-08-19 Thread Marco Fossati
Dropping my two cents here: I'm wondering about the Wikidata Linked Data Fragments (LDF) service [1] usage. LDF [2] is nice because it shifts the computation burden to the client, at the cost of less expressive SPARQL queries, IIRC. I think it would be a good idea to forward simple queries to

[Wikidata] Re: URLs statistics for Discogs and MusicBrainz

2021-08-02 Thread Marco Fossati
already have properties for most of these links? I'm not sure what you're asking as I have little knowledge of the context of the situation... lectrician1, On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 8:56 AM Marco Fossati <mailto:foss...@spaziodati.eu>> wrote: [Cross-posting from the Wikidata chat] Hi

[Wikidata] Item validation criteria

2021-07-06 Thread Marco Fossati
[Please pardon me if you have already read this on the Wikidata chat] Hello folks, TL;DR: what do you think of the 3 validation criteria below? I'm excited to let you know

[Wikidata] soweego 2 proposal

2020-02-19 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi everyone, --- TL;DR: soweego 2 is on its way. Here's the Project Grant proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Hjfocs/soweego_2 --- Does the name

Re: [Wikidata] Concise/Notable Wikidata Dump

2019-12-18 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi everyone, Benno (in CC) has recently announced this tool: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wdumps/ I haven't checked it out yet, but it sounds related to Aidan's inquiry. Hope this helps. Cheers, Marco On 12/18/19 8:01 AM, Edgard Marx wrote: +1 On Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 19:14 Aidan Hogan

Re: [Wikidata] Comparison of Wikidata, DBpedia, and Freebase (draft and invitation)

2019-10-01 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi Denny, Thanks for publishing your Colab notebook! I went through it and would like to share my first thoughts here. We can then move further discussion somewhere else. 1. in general, how can we compare datasets with totally different time stamps? Wikidata is alive, Freebase is dead, and

Re: [Wikidata] Google's stake in Wikidata and Wikipedia

2019-09-27 Thread Marco Fossati
Hey Sebastian, On 9/20/19 10:22 AM, Sebastian Hellmann wrote: Not much of Freebase did end up in Wikidata. Dropping here some pointers to shed light on the migration of Freebase to Wikidata, since I was partially involved in the process: 1. WikiProject [1]; 2. the paper behind [2]; 3.

Re: [Wikidata] Personal news: a new role

2019-09-23 Thread Marco Fossati
That's just awesome, Denny. Unity is strength. Wishing you all the best. Marco On 19/09/19 18:56, Denny Vrandečić wrote: Hello all, Over the last few years, more and more research teams all around the world have started to use Wikidata. Wikidata is becoming a fundamental resource [1]. That

Re: [Wikidata] soweego 1.1 is under way

2019-08-28 Thread Marco Fossati
linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/ On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 11:22 AM Marco Fossati <mailto:foss...@spaziodati.eu>> wrote: Hi everyone, Wearing the soweego project lead hat, I'm pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation has approved the *soweego 1.1* proposal: https://met

[Wikidata] soweego 1.1 is under way

2019-08-28 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi everyone, Wearing the soweego project lead hat, I'm pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation has approved the *soweego 1.1* proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Hjfocs/soweego_1.1 The main goal is to put together different machine learning algorithms and

[Wikidata] soweego 1.0 release

2019-07-30 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi everyone, TL;DR: soweego version 1 is out! https://soweego.readthedocs.io/ Like it? Star it! The soweego team is delighted to announce the release of *version 1* [1]! If you like it, why don't you click on the Star button?

[Wikidata] soweego: link Wikidata to large catalogs

2019-07-10 Thread Marco Fossati
Dear all, --- TL;DR: soweego version 1 will be released soon. In the meanwhile, why don't you consider endorsing the next steps? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Hjfocs/soweego_1.1

Re: [Wikidata] Mapping Wikidata to other ontologies

2018-09-24 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi Maarten, On 9/22/18 13:28, Maarten Dammers wrote: The equivalent property and equivalent class are used, but not that much. Did anyone already try a structured approach with reporting? I'm considering parsing popular ontology descriptions and producing reports of what is linked to what so

Re: [Wikidata-tech] How to import Wikidata entities to another Wikibase

2018-08-11 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi Niklas, On 8/10/18 11:23, Daniel Kinzler wrote: You could go for a straight up import of the XML dump. If you are using MediaWiki Vagrant [1] for your Wikibase instance, I've contributed a couple of walkthroughs [2,3]. In my experience, however, the XML import ended in lots of missing data,

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata prefix search is now Elastic

2017-10-27 Thread Marco Fossati
Sounds good, thank you Daniel and Stas. Best, Marco On 10/26/17 19:20, Stas Malyshev wrote: Hi! Thanks a lot Stas for this present. Could you please share any pointers on how to integrate it into other tools? It's the same API as before, wbsearchentities. If you need additional profiles -

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata prefix search is now Elastic

2017-10-26 Thread Marco Fossati
Thanks a lot Stas for this present. Could you please share any pointers on how to integrate it into other tools? Cheers, Marco On 10/25/17 22:22, Stas Malyshev wrote: Wikidata and Search Platform teams are happy to announce that Wikidata prefix search is now using new and improved

[Wikidata] Soweego: wide-coverage linking of external identifiers. Call for support

2017-09-24 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi everyone, Remember the Wikidata primary sources tool? https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool While the StrepHit team is building its next version, I'd like to invite you to have a look at a new project proposal. The main goal is to add a high volume of identifiers to

[Wikidata] Which external identifiers are worth covering?

2017-09-07 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi everyone, As a data quality addict, I've been investigating the coverage of external identifiers linked to Wikidata items about people. Given the numbers on SQID [1] and some SPARQL queries [2, 3], it seems that even the second most used ID (VIAF) only covers *25%* of people items circa.

Re: [Wikidata] Wordnet synset ID

2017-08-21 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi everyone, I asked a related question during the presentation at Wikimania: my understanding is that Ontolex/Lemon [1, 2] was used to model the Wikidata lexicographical items. WordNet was discarded, as it has an older model. Best, Marco [1] https://www.w3.org/2016/05/ontolex/ [2]

Re: [Wikidata] Tool for consuming left-over data from import

2017-08-08 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi Antonin, On 8/7/17 20:36, Antonin Delpeuch (lists) wrote: Does anybody know an alternative to CrowdFlower that can be used for free with volunteer workers? There you go: https://crowdcrafting.org/ Hope this helps you keep up with your great work on openrefine. I believe entity

[Wikidata] Primary sources tool uplift proposal

2017-07-04 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi everyone, The StrepHit team [1] has submitted an official uplift proposal for the primary sources tool [2]. This is part of a Wikimedia project grant [3], which has 2 big goals: 1. to improve the reference coverage of Wikidata statements; 2. to standardize the data release workflow for

Re: [Wikidata] SQID now supports PrimarySources

2017-01-09 Thread Marco Fossati
Thanks for the report, Markus. I will file it in the primary sources tool issues. Best, Marco Il 28 dic 2016 3:33 PM, "Markus Kroetzsch" <markus.kroetz...@tu-dresden.de> ha scritto: Hi Marco, On 27.12.2016 14:27, Marco Fossati wrote: > Hi Markus and thanks for thi

Re: [Wikidata] Cleaning up Primary Sources (Freebase import)

2016-12-27 Thread Marco Fossati
I was about to mention the StrepHit renewal proposal. Thanks Lydia for doing that faster than me! :-) Best, Marco On 12/20/16 19:56, Lydia Pintscher wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, Please consider, it has been said all too often

Re: [Wikidata] SQID now supports PrimarySources

2016-12-27 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi Markus and thanks for this major SQID update. On 12/16/16 13:32, Markus Kroetzsch wrote: == Known issues == * Some statements cannot be rejected in Primary Sources. This problem affects both SQID and the Wikidata gadget in the same way. It seems to be a bug in the PS web service, which we

Re: [Wikidata] Primary Sources Tool - Someone Goofed Up !

2016-12-02 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi Thad, The examples you mentioned are facts automatically extracted from natural language texts. It looks like those facts are not incorrect on their own: for instance, the first 3 people listed in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11629 seem to be painters indeed. In my opinion, what is

Re: [Wikidata] Data import hub, data preperation instructions and import workflow for muggles

2016-11-22 Thread Marco Fossati
, Marco Fossati <foss...@spaziodati.eu <mailto:foss...@spaziodati.eu>> wrote: Hi John, Navino, the primary sources tool uses the QuickStatements syntax for large-scale non-curated dataset imports, see: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Dat

Re: [Wikidata] Data import hub, data preperation instructions and import workflow for muggles

2016-11-22 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi John, Navino, the primary sources tool uses the QuickStatements syntax for large-scale non-curated dataset imports, see: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_donation#3._Work_with_the_Wikidata_community_to_import_the_data https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool

[Wikidata] Fwd: Re: [wikicite-discuss] Entity tagging and fact extraction (from a scholarly publisher perspective)

2016-11-11 Thread Marco Fossati
-- Messaggio inoltrato -- Da: "Marco Fossati" <foss...@fbk.eu> Data: 11 nov 2016 1:23 PM Oggetto: Fwd: Re: [wikicite-discuss] Entity tagging and fact extraction (from a scholarly publisher perspective) A: "Marco Fossati" <foss...@spaziodati.eu> Cc:

Re: [Wikidata] StrepHit IEG renewal: call for support

2016-07-26 Thread Marco Fossati
, the notion of the StrepHit functionality with improved methods to add them to Wikidata make sense. Maybe it is even time to reconsider many of the notions of Primary Sources. Thanks,s GerardM On 24 July 2016 at 15:33, Marco Fossati <foss...@spaziodati.eu <mailto:foss...@spaziodati.eu&g

[Wikidata] StrepHit IEG renewal: call for support

2016-07-24 Thread Marco Fossati
[Begging pardon if you have already read this in the Wikidata project chat] Hi everyone, If you care about data quality, you probably know that high quality is synonym of references to trusted sources. That's why the primary sources tool is out there as a Wikidata gadget:

Re: [Wikidata] Primary Sources Tool code has been moved to Wikidata org

2016-07-12 Thread Marco Fossati
Thanks for the heads-up, Lydia. I assume future contributors won't have to sign a Google Contributor License Agreement, right? Cheers, Marco On 7/12/16 17:11, Lydia Pintscher wrote: Hey folks :) Based on requests here Denny and I have worked on getting the Primary Sources Tool code moved

Re: [Wikidata] [ANNOUNCEMENT] StrepHit 1.0 Beta Release

2016-06-16 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi Satya, the knowledge base produced by StrepHit could be queried by a QA system, pretty much as any structured knowledge base. Not sure what you want to know though, could you please expand? Cheers, Marco On 6/16/16 18:51, Satya Gadepalli wrote: Can this be used as factoid QA System? thx

[Wikidata] [ANNOUNCEMENT] StrepHit 1.0 Beta Release

2016-06-15 Thread Marco Fossati
[Feel free to blame me if you read this more than once] To whom it may interest, Full of delight, I would like to announce the first beta release of *StrepHit*: https://github.com/Wikidata/StrepHit TL;DR: StrepHit is an intelligent reading agent that understands text and translates it into

Re: [Wikidata] RFC - Primary Sources?

2016-06-15 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi Lydia, On 6/15/16 07:42, Lydia Pintscher wrote: Lydia - can you assign someone to come up to speed at whatever level Denny requires to feel comfortable making the transfer? I will take care of it with Denny in the next days. Repasting part of a previous message with the list of

Re: [Wikidata] RFC - Primary Sources?

2016-06-14 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi Tom and thanks Lydia for the clarification, that request for comments (RFC) [1] aims at gathering feedback both on the primary sources tool and the available datasets (especially StrepHit [2]), which are closely intertwined: the dataset is in the tool, so people can play with both in one

Re: [Wikidata] Primary sources tool "reject claim" broken?

2016-05-30 Thread Marco Fossati
Sorry, I forgot to rename the "digest" subject, fixed now. On 5/30/16 16:06, Marco Fossati wrote: Hi Markus, this is a known issue: https://github.com/google/primarysources/issues/94 It seems to be related to the front-end: @Thomas, this and https://github.com/google/primarysources/

Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata Digest, Vol 54, Issue 23

2016-05-30 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi Markus, this is a known issue: https://github.com/google/primarysources/issues/94 It seems to be related to the front-end: @Thomas, this and https://github.com/google/primarysources/issues/107 are blocking the usage of the tool. Would it be possible for you to investigate them? Cheers,

[Wikidata] Primary sources tool (was: Re: Freebase to Wikidata: Results from Tpt internship)

2016-02-22 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi Tom, FYI, the primary sources tool is not dead: besides Freebase, it will also cater for other datasets. The StrepHit team will take care of it in the next few months, as per one of the project goals [1]. The code repository is owned by Google, and the StrepHit team will collaborate with

Re: [Wikidata] from Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration

2016-02-19 Thread Marco Fossati
I couldn't wait for a detailed description of the primary sources tool. Thanks a lot to the authors for mentioning the StrepHit soccer dataset! Cheers, Marco On 2/19/16 13:00, wikidata-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:07:41 -0600 From: Maximilian

[Wikidata] Sourcerer / Sourcery (was: Re: Mix'n'match tool catalogues data)

2016-01-22 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi Magnus, >I was aware of the Sourcerer tool: I'm concerned with those references >coming from Wikipedia articles though, since they stem from inside a >Wikimedia project, and I want to make sure that everything comes from >the outside. > The Sourcerer references do NOT come from Wikipedia! I

Re: [Wikidata] [REMINDER] StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar

2016-01-11 Thread Marco Fossati
Here is the link for the online streaming: https://youtu.be/uvfd_HmPOrc Cheers, Marco 2016-01-11 16:11 GMT+01:00 Marco Fossati <foss...@spaziodati.eu>: > Dear all, > > This is a kind reminder for the upcoming StrepHit IEG project kick-off > seminar. > Schedule: 15 J

[Wikidata] [REMINDER] StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar

2016-01-11 Thread Marco Fossati
://www.openstreetmap.org/way/67197096 The seminar will be streamed online, a link will be shared as soon as it is available. See you in Trento! Cheers, Marco 2015-12-23 17:03 GMT+01:00 Marco Fossati <foss...@spaziodati.eu>: > [Begging pardon if you read this multiple times] > > Hi everyo

Re: [Wikidata] [ANNOUNCEMENT] StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar

2015-12-27 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi Dario, Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 08:04:33 -0800 > From: Dario Taraborelli > To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." > > Subject: Re: [Wikidata] [ANNOUNCEMENT] StrepHit IEG project kick-off > seminar > Message-ID:

[Wikidata] [ANNOUNCEMENT] StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar

2015-12-23 Thread Marco Fossati
the gold-standard hub of the Open Data landscape. Link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References Speaker's bio: Marco Fossati is a researcher with a double background in Natural Languages and Information Technologies. He works at the Data

[Wikidata] StrepHit won the IEG grants selection

2015-12-07 Thread Marco Fossati
Dear all, I have no words to say how much I'm happy: StrepHit [1] has been selected as an IEG project [2]!!! I'd like to express my gratitude to all the community members that have provided feedback and endorsements. Thanks, thanks, thanks for believing in the idea. Cheers! -- Marco Fossati

[Wikidata] Wikidata Mentors at the Google Summer of Code Summit

2015-11-02 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi everyone, I was just wondering whether any Wikidatan will be present at the upcoming Google Summer of Code Mentor summit: https://sites.google.com/site/gsoc2015ms/ If so, it would be cool to meet there, just ping me before the summit. Cheers, -- Marco Fossati http://about.me/marco.fossati

[Wikidata] StrepHit IEG proposal: last call for support

2015-10-14 Thread Marco Fossati
on the *endorse* blue button on the project page. Looking forward to your updates. Cheers, -- Marco Fossati http://about.me/marco.fossati Twitter: @hjfocs Skype: hell_j ___ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikidata] Freebase to Wikidata: Results from Tpt internship

2015-10-02 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi Denny, Thomas, I would like to thank you both for your support in making the StrepHit soccer dataset available! I owe you some hectolitres of beer :-) There is one thing that was mentioned during our summer discussions and that I sadly forgot: shall the Freebase ontology mappings be added

[Wikidata] SrepHit IEG proposal: call for support (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] first StrepHit dataset for the primary sources tool)

2015-09-21 Thread Marco Fossati
to your updates. Cheers! On 9/9/15 11:39, Marco Fossati wrote: Hi Markus, everyone, The project proposal is currently in active development. I would like to focus now on the dissemination of the idea and the engagement of the Wikidata community. Hence, I would love to gather feedback

Re: [Wikidata] [ANNOUNCEMENT] first StrepHit dataset for the primary sources tool

2015-09-09 Thread Marco Fossati
..@semantic-mediawiki.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Dear Marco, Sounds interesting, but the project page still has a lot of gaps. Will you notify us again when you are done? It is a bit tricky to endorse a proposal that is not finished yet;-) Markus On 04.09.201

Re: [Wikidata] [ANNOUNCEMENT] first StrepHit dataset for the primary sources tool

2015-09-05 Thread Marco Fossati
Lydia Pintscher<lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> Thank you for working on this, Marco. This is a great step forward. I wish you good luck for the IEG proposal! Thanks @Lydia for your encouragement! Cheers, -- Marco Fossati http://about.me/marco.fossati Twitter: @hjfocs S

Re: [Wikidata] [ANNOUNCEMENT] first StrepHit dataset for the primary sources tool

2015-09-05 Thread Marco Fossati
l will also include an investigation phase to select a set of authoritative sources, see the first task in the proposal work package: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References#Work_Package I'll expand on this. Cheers, -- Marco Fossati h

Re: [Wikidata] Help needed for Freebase to Wikidata migration

2015-06-17 Thread Marco Fossati
/Wikidata:Primary_sources_tool -- Marco Fossati http://about.me/marco.fossati Twitter: @hjfocs Skype: hell_j ___ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

Re: [Wikidata-l] Preliminary SPARQL endpoint for Wikidata

2015-03-23 Thread Marco Fossati
Billion+ RDF triples culled from across the LOD Cloud (if you lookup Wikidata URIs that are objects of owl:sameAs relations you'll end up in Wikidata own Linked Data Space) [2]http://wikidata.metaphacts.com/sparql -- another endpoint I discovered yesterday . -- Marco Fossati http://about.me

Re: [Wikidata-l] [Dbpedia-discussion] Italian DBpedia 3.4. release

2015-02-25 Thread Marco Fossati
Hi Vladimir, Il 24/feb/2015 08:38 Vladimir Alexiev vladimir.alex...@ontotext.com ha scritto: Excellent, thanks!! 1. Do you have a description how does this work? I can't even find your presentation from Dublin 7 Feb The paper describing the approach is under review on a top conference, I

[Wikidata-l] Italian DBpedia 3.4. release

2015-02-23 Thread Marco Fossati
I am pleased to announce the 3.4. release of the Italian DBpedia chapter. It includes links to Wikidata and exhaustive type coverage through DBTax. Check out the blog post here: http://it.dbpedia.org/2015/02/dbpedia-italiana-release-3-4-wikidata-e-dbtax/?lang=en Cheers! -- Marco Fossati http

Re: [Wikidata-l] Live Demo time today 1 p.m. - 2.30 p.m. PST

2014-11-04 Thread Marco Fossati
Marco and friends, Any chance you're streaming this to the web, Marco? If so, what's the URL please? Thanks, Scott On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Marco Fossati hell.j@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, This is just to let you know that I will run live demos for the tutorial at the Unicode conference

Re: [Wikidata-l] DBpedia - Wikidata mapping questions

2014-08-18 Thread Marco Fossati
. Cheers! [1] http://mappings.dbpedia.org [2] dbpedia-discuss...@lists.sourceforge.net [3] http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/OntologyClass:Person [4] http://it.dbpedia.org/resource/Joey_Ramone Thanks and regards, Micru -- Marco Fossati http://about.me/marco.fossati Twitter: @hjfocs Skype: hell_j