User:Apsdehal
About Me:
Hi, I'm Amanpreet Singh. I am a second year student currently enrolled in Electrical Engineering (IV Year Course) at IIT Roorkee.
I developed a passion for programming and web development in my freshman year. I am regularly contributing to Mediawiki since November 2013. I am an active member of SDSLabs [1]
at IIT Roorkee.
I am currently proficient in Javascript, PHP, Python and Node.js.
Works done till now:
- Build web app for a local startup at IIT Roorkee, Roorkee Delivers.
- Created a code sharing website OpenCode
- A web app that makes matches on the basis of common interest between two people [1].
- jQuery plugin for shopping cart ( jCart ) and cookies ( jCookie ).
- Github Profile.
- I am currently trying to fix bugs in Mediawiki (Gerrit Repo).
- I have mostly worked on improve the extension Multimedia Viewer.
GSoC 2014 Proposal
Project
Annotation Tool that extracts information from the books and feed them on wikidata
Name and Contact Information
Name
Amanpreet Singh
amanpreet.iitr2013@gmail.com
IRC Nick
apsdehal
Web Page / Blog / Microblog:
Location
Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
Typical Working Hours:
10:00- 13:00, 15:30-19:00, 22:00-03:00 ( IST ) 4:30- 7:30, 9:30-1:30, 16:30- 21:30 ( UTC )
Synopsis
Project is strongly based on belief to increase the user interactivity with Wikidata by creating a tool that on highlighting a
statement would provide a GUI to fix its structure then feed it to Wikidata. Wikidata is a free information base that is same
for humans and machines. It centralizes access to and structurally manage data so that every piece of data is easily available
and accessible.
Need
1. You are at home, reading a book. You often note important points all around the book by annotating it. Often you want
to share this info with world or save them for future use. So think of a solution such that you annotate and directly feed
and share important quotes to the knowledge base of Wikidata.
2. You are at presentation or some sort of seminar. Say you see a very important point during presentation and you want
to take a note of it, then this tool again comes to your rescue. Just annotate it. Specify your structure, click! Its on Wikidata.
How it will work?
I am going to create a Mediawiki extension for this project that will offer a GUI on highlighting a sentence. This GUI will
analyze the statement using Pundit software, as a triple (subject, object, predicate), offer a change screen and then feed
the same to Wikidata by linking to its items and property. Optionally, providing the functionality to share the same to the
world.
Deliverables
| Timeline | Task |
|---|---|
| April 22 - May 3 | Familiarising myself with the mentors, codebase and my project. As I am already in contact with my mentors for a long time, had gone through the codebase, so it won't take much long to accomplish this task. |
| May 4 - May 16 | Create an external extension for the Annotator and write its initial code. |
| May 17 - May 27 | Write unit tests and test the initial code. |
| May 27 - June 12 | Start creating a GUI by either building it from scratch or using existing base of Pundit |
| June 13 - June 22 | Write more unit tests and vigorously test the GUI and the extension by creating various scenarios |
| June 23 | Midterm Evaluation |
| June 24- July 5 | Use wikidata api to retrieve existing properties on selected text and show suggestions. |
| July 6 - July 18 | Parse the triple(subject-predicate-object) to the wikidata as properties and items using wikidata api. |
| July 19 - July 22 | Brush up everything clean and nice |
| July 22 - August 1 | Write unit tests and test repeatedly. |
| August 2 - August 15 | Find and fix all the bugs found and clean up the extension |
| August 18 | Firm pencil down date. |
| August 21 | Submit the extension to google and launch the extension on initial scale with help of mediawiki and my mentors. |
Possible Mentors
1. Cristian Consonni
2. Andrea Zanni
3. The Pundit team