Roman Bilusyak, Vas Mylko
Curiosio has own Knowledge Graph aka KG. We found ourselves using four Wiki projects simultaneously for the KG purposes. We were already using Wikivoyage and Wikipedia for a while. We have started to use Wiki Commons and Wikidata. In this post we will describe relations between them, so that you can use this knowledge in your own projects.
Wikis
Wikipedia aka WP— is an free online encyclopedia created and maintained as an open collaboration by a community of volunteer editors. Curiosio links all POIs and populated places to English Wikipedia.
Wikivoyage aka WV — is a free web-based travel guide for travel destinations and travel topics written by volunteer authors. It is “Wikipedia of travel guides”. Curiosio takes many POIs and populated places from Wikivoyage.
Wikidata aka WD — is a knowledge base and a common source of open data that Wikipedia (and other Wikimedia projects) can use, under a public domain license.
Wiki Commons aka WC— is an online repository of free-use images, sounds, other media. When we introduced Signature Tours, we needed pictures for quirky locations. Many pictures are in public domain, no attribution needed.
Others
OpenStreetMap aka OSM provides massive amounts of geo data: coordinates, geometry, roads, POI types, administrative info and more. OSM is so rich and dense that it is used for turn-by-turn navigation (OSRM, Valhalla).
GeoNames aka GN— is a geographical database of over ~25M names corresponding to over 10M unique features. There are alternative names, names in various languages, latitude, longitude, elevation, population, administrative subdivision and postal codes.
Atlas Obscura aka AO — is an online catalog of ~20,000 unusual and obscure travel destinations via user-generated content. “Definitive guide to the world’s most obscure places”. It is growing into related catalog known as Gastro Obscura.
Google Arts & Culture aka Google Art Project — is an online platform through which the public can access high-resolution images of artworks housed in the participating museums.
Conclusion
You can use this knowledge that we obtained during our work on Curiosio Knowledge Graph for your own purposes. Tell us if you spot discrepancies in our diagrams. Tell us if you know about other relations (we know about some other relations, e.g. WV json listings).
Follow your curiosity the smart way. Curiosio with new Knowledge Graph will be smarter and nicer!
