On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 10:36 PM, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ... but I don't believe that I've ever actually seen an application that > uses it, and don't have a real understanding of how it is used and what can > be done with it that cannot be done without it. Like OSM, you don't immediately see that an application uses Wikidata until you read the fine print or dig deeper. For an example, the Moving Map in-flight application of Eurowings "is powered by the magic of Wikidata": https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAkpeFQWsAApvKI.jpg There are many other examples of applications, tools, and websites that use Wikidata. You just won't see it at first glance. To answer your second point, sure, you don't really need Wikidata and you can directly go to the source databases that Wikidata links to, but Wikidata is increasingly becoming a central hub for linking various disparate databases together via their primary identifiers. In addition, Wikidata is also increasingly becoming a go-to knowledge base in and of itself. Google, in fact, shut down the Freebase project that they acquired in favor of Wikidata.
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