But of course, all those benefits are applicable to other databases, too. If you have your own private database, or if you work primarily with your university's data, or the Library of Congress' data, or any other data source, then it makes sense to reconcile your data set with that source. We are re-working Gridworks to support reconciliation against arbitrary data source (discussion thread). Here is a brief update on the current development.
In the source trunk, the Reconcile dialog box has been changed to support registering of standard reconciliation services adhering to this developing API specs:
Some sample APIs can be experimented with "in the raw" here. Each reconciliation service can have its own semantics. For example, to the Netflix reconciliation service below, "types" does not mean Freebase types but film genres.
The service can also specify how to formulate URLs from identifiers. Here, the Netflix identifier is "60020675":
The service can also customize various auto suggest widgets in the UI. For example, here, the Netflix service automatically suggests only film topics (rather than cities) for "Chicago".
If you're interested in this development, check out Gridworks' trunk and try out the feature. The Netflix reconciliation service mentioned is implemented as an Acre app (open source). Feel free to develop your own reconciliation service, plug it into Gridworks, and tell us what works and what doesn't (mailing list).
