On Oct 18, 2007, at 4:40 PM, Jon Crump wrote: > ... experiment on my history classes to help my students visualize > the chronological context of the events they're reading about. ...
I have my own personal opinions about this. I do think that the wiki metaphor is the right one for a range of tasks where the metadata is emerging organically or collaboratively. You can do a lot with a gloss of mediawiki tempting to lower the apparent complexity the users are faced with. Wibit takes the approach of staying close to the wiki's native data structures; i.e. using tables to reveal the metadata. Which makes is an easier add to existing mediawikis. [I understand. There are dozens of wiki's out there, including the one in sakai. We have been doing some evangelism with the sakai folks about using our tools; but that's really up to them. We aren't really tasked to work on the courseware problem :)] I personally think that it's a win to add some metadata support directly into your wiki; and hence I'm a fan of semantic media wiki. Note that semantic media wiki comes with timeline bundled into it [1]. But we haven't played the card, yet, of bridging between it and exhibit. So, if I was coding up a means to this end I'd start with semantic mediawiki, add in exhibit, and then form common cause with those folks on the tough problem of how to incrementally cobble together a meta-data model over time and collaboratively. - ben [1] http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Upcoming_events _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
