Hi Clinton,
there are probably 3 things going on here. The first is translating the
latin taxonomy terms into English. The second is using a formal grammar with
taxonomic rules to define the taxonomy. Finally is applying a CSS to format
the information into the box seen.
FlexWiki can easily deal with the technical matters. The big problem is
creating the taxonomy. This is the problem Berners-Lee is always discussing.
The problem is in creating the formal grammar for your subject matter. It
just happens that biologists have pre-created that grammar and then
WikiPedia is leveraging it.
This is a demonstration of the potential power of the semantic web. With an
agreed upon grammar it is easy to apply a taxonomy to any subject. But....
getting a working grammar is very difficult. Then getting users to input the
grammar is the next problem. With biologists that is an accepted and normal
practice.
John Davidson
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Astralis Lux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> If you visit the following link to Wikipedia, notice the box on the side
> with the image and details. This is a template system that Wikipedia uses
> and this particular template is called the "taxobox" because it displays
> taxonomic information about nature. The template is transcluded on the
> page. When you look at the source for the page, you can see how all the
> fields for the taxobox template are filled in for it to display the box.
>
> I'm fairly certain that FlexWiki can do the same, but I don't know how
> best to accomplish this and wonder if anyone has any ideas.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel-billed_Cuckoo
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