Project Produk-Produk

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Problem Statement
It's already 2022, but somehow, in Indonesia, it's still really hard to ask question like "where can i find the nearest X to me?" (where X is either product or services).

We have online marketplace platform, but that's not what we're really want. Yes, we can search the product reliably nowadays, but the delivery still takes ages. What we want is something more instant. At least, give us the coordinate of the shop, so we can directly visit them.

We have search engine, but sadly, not every business can afford to build a website to catalog their product and services.

We have map apps, but somehow, it's still not reliable to find the product & services information. Current most popular map apps is proprietary, and it's hard to add open information into them.

The Solution
We're harnessing the power of open collaborative project to tackle this problem. Where everyone can contribute to enrich the data regarding products, services, and business for common good. It's "open collaborative", just like Wikipedia / OpenStreetMap.

FAQs

 * We already have Wikipedia pages for products, services, and business. Why we are creating yet another Wikipedia?
 * "Advertising" is strictly forbidden in Wikipedia. Local business usually got banned when they're trying to post something there.
 * Any technical details yet?
 * We are using knowledge graph to store the interrelationship between products, services and business.
 * Why knowledge graph?
 * Easier and more flexible data modeling. Powerful querying by using SPARQL.
 * So, like Wikidata?
 * Yes, but we are aiming to be more than Wikidata. Currently, wikidata-like architecture will be used as "data layer". The RDF triplet is actually stored as JSON inside MediaWiki page, then eventually it will be transformed into Blazegraph triplestore database, with an SPARQL endpoint. This SPARQL endpoint will serve as a main "data layer interface". Then, we'll build apps on top on this data layer. Web & mobile apps for end-user to search and add the product & services.
 * Are you really insisting to use knowledge graph?
 * Well, we are open to discussion. It's just a means to the goal, and we realize that there are several possible ways to reach the same goal. As long the goal is reached, it's ok.
 * So, how can i help?
 * It's gonna be a big and long project. But, for now we can strive to reach these short-term goal :
 * If you are located in Indonesia, we want to verify this problem. Are you experiencing the same problem as us? We have probably missed something important. So do you have any overall comments regarding this idea?
 * If you are not located in Indonesia, then do you experiencing this problem too? Or, it's already solved in your country? If you're somehow still interested in working on this project, then join us.
 * If you think that this problem is worth your time and worth to solve, then join us. We need lot of hands. People with expertise in frontend, backend, web, knowledge-graph, etc are welcomed. :)
 * Currently, our system is still on prototyping stage. So we need to test it with real world data. We need volunteer data collectors. Just like Wikipedia / OpenStreetMap, anyone could join if they have valuable information to share with us.
 * Contact us : altilunium (at) gmail.com