In a very interesting article, the German news site spiegel.de analyses the recently launched Wolfram Alpha. Their analysis hits the bull’s-eye: the Wolfram team will never be able to curate all the information needed to make W|A really useful. Especially compared to Wikipedia, which is maintained by such a large community.

Linked Data is the model for decentralized data publication that can solve this problem. I’m just wondering how much curation it will require…

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