Web Forms

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We will need forms which people can use when writing a Wikibase CV or when sitting in an archive over a document that should become a FacrGrid Item.

To use web forms is an interesting option as it forces people to answer specific question in a preformatted way. The idea is particularily interesting for historians in their daily work. Should they create a google document for the document they are exploring or should they create (and authorise) a web page for the document with meta data, transcripts, scans?

The Research Centre funded a first take on the problem. This is in the making.

Java Script Interfaces

We are not the first to consider accessing and editing Wikibase data through specific webforms. [Contact Greg Stupp for their team's approach]

Towards the "Wikibase Interpreter"

Work on editable web forms is eventually a step towards an organised interface for wikibase instances (with the potential to go beyond Magnus Manske's Reasonator.