Wikidata Service
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A Wikidata Service is a semantic system composed of the Wikidata knowledge base and an online database API.
- Context:
- It could be wound down as a standalone project in mid-2015
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Entity, OmegaWiki, Probase Knowledge Base, Semantic Web, Wikipedia, NNDB.
References
2014
- Dec, 2014 https://plus.google.com/109936836907132434202/posts/bu3z2wVqcQc
- When we publicly launched Freebase back in 2007, we thought of it as a "Wikipedia for structured data." So it shouldn't be surprising that we've been closely watching the Wikimedia Foundation's project Wikidata[1] since it launched about two years ago. We believe strongly in a robust community-driven effort to collect and curate structured knowledge about the world, but we now think we can serve that goal best by supporting Wikidata -- they’re growing fast, have an active community, and are better-suited to lead an open collaborative knowledge base.
So we've decided to help transfer the data in Freebase to Wikidata, and in mid-2015 we’ll wind down the Freebase service as a standalone project.
- When we publicly launched Freebase back in 2007, we thought of it as a "Wikipedia for structured data." So it shouldn't be surprising that we've been closely watching the Wikimedia Foundation's project Wikidata[1] since it launched about two years ago. We believe strongly in a robust community-driven effort to collect and curate structured knowledge about the world, but we now think we can serve that goal best by supporting Wikidata -- they’re growing fast, have an active community, and are better-suited to lead an open collaborative knowledge base.