[Foundation-l] Project Proposal: Wikicat

Fri Jul 28 15:34:59 UTC 2006

Hoi,
The project that you propose has a very large overlap with the WikiAuthors
project. This project is as it is described on Meta about among other things
the disambiguation of Pubmet articles. This project is extremely likely to
be realised. The functionality that you describe can and will by and large
be modelled using Wikidata technology.

As this project does use the Wikidata technology, it would make very much
sense to collaborate and share our efforts and make one big and beautiful
project.

Please let us discuss how we can / will collaborate.. for your information
WiktionaryZ's codebase is updated daily. This means for instance that today
people will have definitions shown in the language of their user interface.
If this definition is not there, English will be shown. When there is no
English, any definition will be shown.

Thanks,
    GerardM

On 7/28/06, Jonathan Leybovich <jleybov at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> All-
>
> I hereby propose for your consideration Wikicat, a
> project to create an open, bibliographic catalog.  The
> purpose of Wikicat is to both lay the groundwork for a
> scholarly apparatus to be used within Wikipedia as
> well as create a unique and valuable information
> resource in its own right.  In particular, Wikicat
> will:
>
> * facilitate the process of citation by automatically
> fetching bibliographic data based upon unique keys
> such as ISBN, ISSN, and LCCN
> * allow users to more easily navigate between
> information resources by grouping them in a
> functionally significant manner (in particular,
> according to the principles of [[w:FRBR]]) so that,
> for example, different editions, translations, etc.
> are all joined together
> * apply Wikipedia's collaborative content creation
> model to bibliographic data, resulting in a catalog of
> unprecedented detail
>
> In terms of implementation, Wikicat will be defined
> like any other [[m:Wikidata]] dataset and will
> integrate with other datasets such as WiktionaryZ to
> share common entities and perhaps someday support
> something along the lines of a Semantic Mediawiki.  As
> Wikidata is currently not code complete, though,
> Wikicat will be deployed in stages, during the first
> of which it will exist as a read-only database that
> populates itself on an as-needed/"as-cited" basis by
> importing data from the open catalog servers of such
> institutions as the Library of Congress, the
> University of California library system, the U.S.
> National Library of Medicine, etc.
>
> Details about the project, in increasing technical
> detail, are available on the following pages:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects#Wikicat
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicat
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicat_Technical_Design
>
> Coding of the first stage of the project is nearly
> complete and a list of its operational requirements
> will soon be forthcoming.  Here is a demo of Wikicat
> integration with the Cite/<ref> extension:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikicat_Cite_screenshoot.png
>
> Thank you for your time and I look forward to your
> comments.
>
>
> Jonathan Leybovich
>
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