User:Daniel Mietchen/FactGrid

About edit

There is a memorandum of understanding (Q1053964) between Wikimedia Deutschland (Q8288) and University of Erfurt (Q702524) about building a database — named FactGrid and to be hosted at Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt (Q1438165) — with a level of granularity that is driven by research needs (primarily of historians) rather than Wikidata:Notability. I am involved and thus collecting information on the project here.

Test corpus edit

FactGrid will be seeded with content from The Gotha Illuminati Research Base, which is of historic interest.

Licensing edit

FactGrid is aiming at licensing its content under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (Q14947546). I am not sure this is the way to go forward and recommend serious consideration to go for Creative Commons CC0 License (Q6938433) instead to ensure maximal compatibility with Wikidata. There are other databases that have recently switched their licensing to CC0 for this reason, e.g. see the respective announcement by WikiPathways (Q7999828).

Meetings edit

This section lists FactGrid-related meetings that I attended, in inverse chronological order.

20180208 edit

Metadata edit

Olaf Simons and Daniel Mietchen
in Jena (Q3150)
ca. 10:15-12:00

Topics edit

commons:Commons:OTRS: handling of non-public information
- Example file
Species ID: on-wiki automated attribution and citation recommendation
- Paper: Interlinking journal and wiki publications through joint citation: Working examples from ZooKeys and Plazi on Species-ID (Q22064473)
Mix'n'match: matching Wikidata content to content in external resources
- Example catalog
Module:Cite: to display bibliographic information from Wikidata on wiki pages
- sandboxing
- on Wikipedia
  - French
  - English
  - Polish
Form for item creation Special:NewItem
Hackathon next week: https://github.com/goe-wikidata/doathon-20180214
Options for publishing hypotheses, conjectures, reasonings
- directly as Wikibase items within a (monolingual?) text property statement
- within a dedicated namespace
- through one of the WikiJournals
  - see m:WikiJournal User Group for overview
- through RIO Journal
  - archived through CLOCKSS
en:Wikipedia:Transclusion: instant (and persistent) mirroring of content from one wiki page into another (within the same MediaWiki instance)
Special:Version — lists installed MediaWiki version including extensions on any MediaWiki site
- for instance, on Wikisource it lists the Proofread Page extension
installing Wikibase from Docker image

To do edit

Review the Factgrid blog post Faktenbelege, die “Original Research” zulassen
Define prototype set of facts to be gridded

20171201 edit

for notes, see here

Hypothesis testing edit

Testing hypotheses about individual items (people, events, letters, locations etc.) will be an integral part of work on the FactGrid, so we are exploring options to build tools and workflows for testing such hypotheses into the infrastructure.

One such approach might be to utilize N3Logic (Q51508669) as described in N3Logic: A Logical Framework For the World Wide Web (Q51507397), which concludes with the following quote:

"The main goal of N3Logic is to extend the RDF data model, so that the same language can be used for logic and data. N3Logic uses the N3 syntax, which provides quoting, variables, and the implication operator. N3Logic also includes built-in functions that allow rules to access Web resources, define which inference can be drawn from specific Web documents, and other useful functionality such as mathematic, cryptographic, and string. In this paper, we described the N3 syntax and give the informal semantics of N3Logic."