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Re: Show HN: A database of everything (over 55M keys)

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Post by hjalle » Thu, Oct 13, 2016, 1:48 PM UTC

singularity2001 wrote: post #27

syats wrote: post #26

There's some more complex and curated projects out there, among them: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page

+1001 for Wikidata compare https://www.outpan.com/data?k=germany to http://netbase.pannous.com/html/verbose/germany (wikidata mirror) or https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Germany

Netbase/pannous seems to be cool but I guess it still got some work to do as it's suggesting Bonn as capital of Germany, unless I'm misinterpreting the statements. Kind of weird result from Google when you search for: "bonn capital germany". For me, it displays the wiki summary of Berlin but the link goes to Bonn. Does it usually work like that?

Edit: It was the Bonn Summary of wikipedia

Re: Show HN: A database of everything (over 55M keys)

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Post by singularity2001 » Thu, Oct 13, 2016, 1:58 PM UTC

hjalle wrote: post #41

singularity2001 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1001 for Wikidata compare https://www.outpan.com/data?k=germany to http://netbase.pannous.com/html/verbose/germany (wikidata mirror) or https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Germany

Netbase/pannous seems to be cool but I guess it still got some work to do as it's suggesting Bonn as capital of Germany, unless I'm misinterpreting the statements. Kind of weird result from Google when you search for: "bonn capital germany". For me, it displays the wiki summary of Berlin but the link goes to Bonn. Does it usually work like that? Edit: It was the Bonn Summary of wikipedia

Bonn was the capital of Germany for many years.

Re: Show HN: A database of everything (over 55M keys)

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Post by smarx007 » Thu, Oct 13, 2016, 10:28 PM UTC

bpicolo wrote: post #40

smarx007 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given how ridiculously basic the website is, I think you're right. It should have been a real triplestore with a SPARQL endpoint though.

There are whole databases built around the concept: http://www.datomic.com/

I browsed the website, but couldn't grasp what is the main value of that product or how could it be useful for the showcased website. Could you please educate me a bit?