Re: Reconsiliation and Semantic MediaWiki

Hi Bernhard,

Welcome! Awesome to read your enthusiasm. Yes it would be great to use
the reconciliation API with SMW instances.

For 1., I can imagine relatively well how such an integration would
work, even if I am not very familiar with SMW's APIs. Just like for
Wikibase, the same question shows up: should the reconciliation service
be integrated to the SMW instance closely (as a MediaWiki extension,
perhaps, or even as part of SMW itself) or should it be an external
service built on top of existing APIs. I would say the closer the better.

For 2., it is not clear to me how you could call a reconciliation
service from within SMW (probably just because I don't know SMW well
enough). Is this something you could call via a Lua API perhaps?
Concretely, what would it let you do?

Best,

Antonin

On 27/11/2020 17:16, Krabina Bernhard wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I just learned from Fabian Steegs great Lightning Talk on SWIB20 about
> the entity reconciliation group. What a great initiative!
>
> I want to provice a reconciliation with data from Semantic MediaWiki
> [1]. Many things are there already. SMW can export its data via RDF,
> JSON, CSV, etc. (this can easily be imported to OpenRefine), and there
> is an API for Semantic MediaWiki that could be used to write data back
> to SMW (similar like writing back to Wikidata).
>
> So as far as I understand it,
> 1. data from SMW installations can be a data source that others can
> reconcile against (not my main usecase), but easier to implement.
> 2. I want to be able to reconcile from within SMW with external data
> (mainly GND and Wikidata - my main usecase).
>
> I'd love to discuss these usecases with you and also find someone
> being able to implement this (as I am not a programmer).
>
> So I am looking forward to discussing this with those of you who are
> interested. Have a nice weekend!
>
> regards,
> Bernhard
>
> [1] https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org
> <https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org>
>
> two SWM installations with obvious reconciliationneeds are:
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8861
> <https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Property_proposal/FINA_Wiki_ID>
> https://fina.oeaw.ac.at/wiki/index.php/?curid=624
> <https://fina.oeaw.ac.at/wiki/index.php/?curid=624>
>
> and
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7842
> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7842>
> https://www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at/Wienbibliothek_im_Rathaus
> <https://www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at/Wienbibliothek_im_Rathaus>
>
>
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