[Taxacom] Google, Wikipedia, and EOL

[Dmitry Mozzherin]

One problem we do have with Wikipedia and EOL approaches, is that
information is mostly not atomized, which makes it quite
expensive/impossible to use for any kind of data mining/data
shuffling/reasoning.

What are your thoughts about this? Do projects like Freebase
(http://www.freebase.com/view/en/bird) or semantic wiki deserve more
attention?

Dima

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Roderic Page<r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear All,
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> I've written a short blog post looking at what sites Google returns
> when you search for all mammal species by scientific name. Can't say
> I'm surprised by the results, but the magnitude of the difference
> between Wikipedia and the rest is quite striking.
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> The post is at http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-wikipedia-and-eol.html
>   (or http://tinyurl.com/n7ey68 is that gets mangled).
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> Regards
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> Rod
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