Wikipedia and the Semantic Web - The Missing Links

Markus KrötzschMarkus Krötzsch, Denny VrandečićDenny Vrandečić, Max VölkelMax Völkel

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Markus Krötzsch, Denny Vrandečić, Max Völkel
Wikipedia and the Semantic Web - The Missing Links
Proceedings of Wikimania 2005 - The First International Wikimedia Conference, July 2005. Wikimedia Foundation

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KurzfassungAbstract
Wikipedia is the biggest collaboratively created source of encyclopaedic knowledge. Growing beyond the borders of any traditional encyclopaedia, it is facing new problems of knowledge management: The current excessive usage of article lists and categories witnesses the fact that 19th century content organization technologies like inter-article references and indices are no longer sufficient for today's needs. Rather, it is necessary to allow knowledge processing in a computer assisted way, for example to intelligently query the knowledge base. To this end, we propose the introduction of typed links as an extremely simple and unintrusive way for rendering large parts of Wikipedia machine readable. We provide a detailed plan on how to achieve this goal in a way that hardly impacts usability and performance, propose an implementation plan, and discuss possible difficulties on Wikipedia's way to the semantic future of the World Wide Web. The possible gains of this endeavor are huge; we sketch them by considering some immediate applications that semantic technologies can provide to enhance browsing, searching, and editing Wikipedia.
Bemerkung: Note: This is the historic first publication that started the work towards Wikidata. It mentions "Wikidata" in the text, but at the time this was a very different project that later turned into OmegaWiki (see the history of the URL given in the paper).
Weitere Informationen unter:Further Information: Link, Link
Projekt:Project: Wikidata
Verknüpfte Tools:Related Tools: Semantic MediaWiki
Forschungsgruppe:Research Group: Wissensbasierte SystemeKnowledge-Based Systems

@inproceedings{KVV2005,
  author    = {Markus Kr{\"{o}}tzsch and Denny Vrande{\v{c}}i{\'{c}} and Max
               V{\"{o}}lkel},
  title     = {Wikipedia and the Semantic Web - The Missing Links},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of Wikimania 2005 - The First International Wikimedia
               Conference},
  publisher = {Wikimedia Foundation},
  year      = {2005},
  month     = {July}
}