On Sep 5, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Stéphane Laurière wrote: > Artem Melentyev wrote: >> Jonas von Malottki wrote: >>> Hello Devs, >>> >>> by reading that another Question crossed my mind: >>> Have you ever thought of giving XWiki also some semantic >>> capabilities? >>> >>> I mean the Idea of Semantic Wikis is not new: >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_wiki >>> >>> In Xwiki you could just put a Link in a 2-tuple form for letting it >>> fulfil the "subject - predicate - object"-Association, with the >>> Subject >>> as the Site where the link is set and the Object the Site where >>> the link >>> is pointing to, so only the predicate is missing. >>> >>> And sometimes I really think it could make Sense. Especially in >>> Xwiki >>> where you could exploit Information stored that way directly via >>> Scripts >>> and Applications developed in XWiki itself. >> >> The question is not relevant to this topic (Query Language), so you'd >> better to start new tread. >> But anyway, there are some effort, I think >> nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org as possible example. But I don't know >> much >> on it. > > Indeed, there is some effort on the topic of semantic wikis in the > context of Nepomuk. One of the results is the support of semantic > syntax > in WikiModel as described at [1], and a preliminary WikiModel editor > in > Eclipse, SWID [2]. > > The approach is similar to semantic-mediawiki, using a different > syntax: > > London is capital %capitalOf(England). > > The WikiModel syntax also supports block properties: > > %worksIn ((( > %type [Company] > %name Cognium Systems > %address ((( > .... > ))) > %description Cognium Systems is a > semantic web company... > ))) > > Using this type of syntax, "objects" can be edited as embedded wiki > documents.
What I'd love to do in the future is add the ability to represent XWiki document objects using this feature. Once I'm done with all the basic syntax element for the new rendering I'll send some proposal to add semantic properties to documents. Thanks -Vincent > [1] http://code.google.com/p/wikimodel/wiki/AdvancedStructuralElements > [2] http://code.google.com/p/swid/wiki/SwidFeatures > > Stéphane > >> About links, this question to Vincent: >> can we add some meta data to link? So we can use these links later >> for >> semantic needs? :) >> for example (semantic-mediawiki) http://semanticweb.org/wiki/London : >> [[capital of::England]] >> "capital of" is predicate, England is target page. _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
