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Re:Wikidata: The first new project from Wikimedia Foundation... by Alex3917 on Friday March 30, 2012 @10:48AM (#3776165)
"The problem is that the relations turn it into the Semantic Web"

Not really. Assuming there are only four or five simple relationships like "Knowing fact X is necessary to understand fact Y", then the whole system isn't much more complicated than trackbacks for blog posts.

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Re:Wikidata: The first new project from Wikimedia Foundation... by david927 on Friday March 30, 2012 @11:14AM (#3776310)
If it was that simple, it would already have been solved. The problem is that relations are for any data point and they can be one-to-one, one-to-many, or many-to-many; and mixes metadata with data seamlessly. It's a hard problem, make no mistake, but completely solvable. I have an approach I'm working on that I'll email you, if you're interested.
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Re:Wikidata: The first new project from Wikimedia Foundation... by Alex3917 on Friday March 30, 2012 @11:24AM (#3776369)
Sure, send me an email.
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