DefiningImageAccess/Tool/Semantic MediaWiki
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Semantic media wiki
| The WikiProject "Semantic MediaWiki" provides a common platform for discussing extensions of the MediaWiki software that allow for simple, machine-based processing of Wiki content. |
| Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is an extension of MediaWiki – the wiki-system powering Wikipedia – with semantic technology, thus turning it into a semantic wiki. While articles in MediaWiki are just plain texts, SMW allows users to add structured data, comparable to the data one would usually store in a database. SMW uses the fact that such data is already contained in many articles: users just need to "mark" the according places so that the system can extract the relevant data without "understanding" the rest of the text. With this information, SMW can help to search, organise, browse, evaluate, and share the wiki's content. |
Observation
This tool was used to set up our project wiki. The following functionalities from the tool were experimented during this usage:
- using templates to describe Person, Mailbox, Project, Tool, Resource, Standard, and Tag. These templates are based on the Person Template published by the OntoWorld project (http://wiki.ontoworld.org/index.php/).
- using tagging to annotate articles and links in the wiki.
The tagging enables us to retrieve projects/tools/standards/resources that have been annotated with the same tag. This brings one step further for searching a wiki web site. However, more functionalities are expected in order to make full use of the taggings, for example,
- providing a tag cloud in order to visualise the taggings
- retrieving a project/tool/standard/resource by a more complex semantic query than what is provided by the default semantic media wiki, such as conjunctive queries.
- export the content in the wiki into PDF document in order to create a project report or a presentation
- construct a simple schema (or folksonomy) out of the tags applied to the wiki site.
These functionalities need extra implementations, such as PHP coding. This is beyond the main focus of this project, although each functionality could provide interesting insights of the content contained in the wiki web site.
