We are using in my company. We imported the whole database into a graph db and we are running queries/marking entities in order to enable things like contextual/semantic search. It is a pretty good database.
This is what enables you to search for things and not strings (as Google does).
Wikidata
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Re: Wikidata
#12Some of the comments suggest not everyone is aware of the history.
This is a Hacker News thread from March 2012 titled "Wikidata: The first new project from Wikimedia Foundation since 2006" that is interesting to revisit:
Re: Wikidata
#13We are using in my company. We imported the whole database into a graph db and we are running queries/marking entities in order to enable things like contextual/semantic search. It is a pretty good database. This is what enables you to search for things and not strings (as Google does).
"Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings"
https://blog.google/products/search/introducing-knowledge-gr...
Re: Wikidata
#14I have frequently created articles and had Wikidata linked to the article. Take https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Baker - if you click on Wikidata item, then it takes you to: https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21536118
Re: Wikidata
#15We are using in my company. We imported the whole database into a graph db and we are running queries/marking entities in order to enable things like contextual/semantic search. It is a pretty good database. This is what enables you to search for things and not strings (as Google does).
"Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings" https://blog.google/products/search/introducing-knowledge-gr...
I wish Google would just search for strings the 60% of the time it doesn't know the thing I'm looking for but really, firmly, and persistently thinks it does. Like it used to. It should get the hint and switch methods somewhere around or before the 10th page of useless, mostly identical results.
Re: Wikidata
#16Not meaning to be patronising, but what's the point of this thread?
Just a Speaker's Corner to say whatever one wants regarding Wikidata?
Re: Wikidata
#17How do you find datasets on wikidata? Their search is hard to use
There is a SPARQL query page, with useful examples included. In general, Wikidata is not made up of discrete "datasets". Rather, each identifiable real-world entity, event or concept has a unique Q-identifier and a listing of "properties" that apply to that entity. So, to construct a dataset, you'd query for entities that participate in some set of properties you might care about.
Thanks! I ended up here, which is about the place one needs to start https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/w...
understanding which tags from the ontology to use and then building the query.
Re: Wikidata
#18Wiki data is awesome. I’ve been considering using it for some projects, but the main thing that’s keeping me away is the concern that some moderator will decide that my data doesn’t fit and remove it. Can anyone speak to this concern? On WP for example notability is a big thing, how does this work in Wikidata?
Re: Wikidata
#19Wiki data is awesome. I’ve been considering using it for some projects, but the main thing that’s keeping me away is the concern that some moderator will decide that my data doesn’t fit and remove it. Can anyone speak to this concern? On WP for example notability is a big thing, how does this work in Wikidata?
All data is notable on Wikidata as long as it can be directly sourced, and/or structurally linked to some other data that's itself notable. There's nothing like the concern for the "encyclopedic" that one might find on Wikipedia. The most obvious example of this is the zillions of entries for individual scholarly articles, which are included because these can be endowed with machine-readable info about authors, publishers and citations that is of general interest.
Re: Wikidata
#20Alas infoboxes on Wikipedia often have more info. Particularly, in the case of cultural phenomena people are frequently eager to populate the infoboxes.
Perhaps some kind of synchronization would be feasible, where with standardized infoboxes relations between known items could be extracted when specified on Wikipedia, and plopped into Wikidata.
For myself, I looked around for a service that could present infobox-data from pages in a category as a table, with filters and sorting. But ended up just firing API requests and parsing the boxes.