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Ok, very cool. I might misunderstand the use case then.

Do you do any sort of history-based analysis? E.g. solving "I just imported this, which I tagged with a,b,c from locations x,y,z, now I want to import this, that has d,e,f also from positions x,y,z" - I guess Wikipedias info boxes would be a typical example of that kind of semi-structured data. Or does that require setting up an import channel yourself?

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The http://world.silkapp.com site was actually built that way. It's a combination of information on Wikipedia & the CIA world factbook. We built a MediaWiki importer for this, that will be publicly available at some point. Also, some of the functionality may make it to the core product, but we'll have to see how this develops over time.

Silk does use pattern recognition to automatically infer data types already, so you won't have to specify that something is a location, date, currency, number, etc. The editor will find out itself. We are working hard to bring this kind of 'cleverness' to more and more aspects of the editor.

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