Re: Wikidata, the free knowledge base that anyone can edit
by JabavuAdams on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @10:02PM
(#5329075)
> Assume you create new google doc, and as you begin typing, in a small window/pane/pop-up, relevant information is displayed based on the context of what you are typing with subtle highlighting. As you typed out "San Francisco's population" that phrase would highlight and the context indicator would display that number.
I've been thinking along the same lines, but for a study prosthetic. Imagine a head-mounted camera that OCRs as you read. So, when you read "Navier-Stokes" there's side-bar with everything that you know about Navier-Stokes, equations, code samples, etc.
Where hovering over "San Francisco's population" would give you the data-point from wikidata?
Is this not the level of parsing that Wolfram Alpha is trying to do?
Also, it would be really interesting to see the following:
Assume you create new google doc, and as you begin typing, in a small window/pane/pop-up, relevant information is displayed based on the context of what you are typing with subtle highlighting. As you typed out "San Francisco's population" that phrase would highlight and the context indicator would display that number.
What would be interesting about this is that if children where using a system like this from their early school days - would they passively absorb such information? would it be annoying or useful?