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March 30, 2012 02:00 pm GMT

Wikipedias Next Big Thing: Wikidata, A Machine-Readable, User-Editable Database Funded By Google, Paul Allen And Others

wikimedia-logo2Wikidata, the first new project to emerge from the Wikimedia Foundation since 2006, is now beginning development. The organization, known best for its user-edited encyclopedia of knowledgeWikipedia, recently announced the new project at February'sSemantic Tech & Business Conferencein Berlin, describing Wikidata as new effort to provide a database of knowledge that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike.There have been other attempts at creating a semantic database built from Wikipedia's data before - for example, DBpedia, a community effort to extract structured content from Wikipedia and make it available online. The difference is that, with Wikidata, the data won't just be made available, it will also be made editable by anyone.

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