Re: Use AI but complement it with structured data

Hoi,
Sorry for responding late, I had a wonderful holiday with my wife.

I have read what I find in the link for Wikidata MCP. It brings me
questions but no understanding. The OCLC story made sense to me because it
described a practical application. The method includes AI, it inspired me
to consider a potential similarity to our systems and your response implies
that it is realistic because of the technology that is available in
Wikidata MCP..

So when we have the technology what is stopping us from actually applying
this?

I may have secondary questions, but when it helps us achieve goals that we
can agree upon in a specific application, what is holding us back?
Thanks,
        Gerard

On Sat, 8 Aug 2026 at 21:08, Strainu <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey Gerard,
>
> Have you seen the Wikidata MCP server [2]? It does exactly what you
> describe.
>
> BR,
>   Strainu
>
> [2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:MCP
>
> În sâm., 8 aug. 2026 la 12:14, Gerard Meijssen via Wikimedia-l <
> [email protected]> a scris:
>
>> Hoi,
>> I read the most wonderful blogpost by the OCLC [1]. For those that do not
>> know, OCLC is a longtime partner of the WMF, it is the worldwide
>> organisation of library organisations, it publishes the VIAF identifiers
>> and they are heavily used in our projects.
>>
>> When you consider the OCLC blogpost, we are in a wonderful position that
>> we have both structured data in list, categories and info boxes in our
>> Wikipedias but also in Wikidata. In addition there is the texts that will
>> typically confirm what it says in the structured data. Having this data
>> enables us to find issues in our data.
>>
>> What I find particularly interesting is that we support more than 300
>> languages, our AI can be trained AND functional by inferring information
>> from our structured data. This means that we may enrich all our projects
>> particularly where statements have weight because of the references in one
>> language. This will materially improve our inclusivity and our relevance.
>> Thanks,
>>       GerardM
>>
>> [1]  AI needs context. Linked data provides.
>> <https://blog.oclc.org/next/ai-needs-context-linked-data-provides/>
>>
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