[Foundation-l] Re: Brainstrorming at Kennisnet

Thu Jul 28 09:11:01 UTC 2005

Walter van Kalken wrote:

> Hello
>
>>
>> Waerth did send a mail asking if Kennisnet would be willing to pay 
>> for access to statistical content. Kennisnet, the portal organisation 
>> it is, cannot fulfil such a request. There was however a discussion 
>> on how such data would be best hosted. Localisation and versioning 
>> were discussed. When you have statistical content, you want to know 
>> the date and the source of the content. アムステルダム, 암스테르담 
>> and Амстердам have the same statistics it makes little sense to store 
>> this in many projects. Consequently the possibilities that Wikidata 
>> offer for this type of information and the possibilities that the 
>> Ultimate Wiktionary offer for localisation need to be considered. 
>> Kennisnet might consider helping with the creation of the 
>> infrastructure for such a project. 
>
>
> And in that same email I said that I would be utterly against such a 
> nightmare scenario of hosting those data at one place. It is yet 
> another project need to tend to while all problems with commons, a 
> much less farreaching similar approach, haven't been settled yet. Also 
> I am just being shown the reason that if I never get access to people 
> of kennisnet my ideas basically get fucked by the messenger.
>
> It is really reassuring that kennisnet actually answers a mail I send 
> (NOT!) might this have something to do with Gerard telling them not to?
>
> Walter/Waerth
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