I glanced at this during the activity discussion, thinking about keeping the activity lists. It seemed to me that this had two issues: one is that the metadata is searchable but not easily includable on a given page; and the other is the learning curve, given that extra semantics must be rigorously defined. I suspect that for a general-public wiki, it would be more trouble than it was worth.
I also posted a link to a similar concept, WikiDB or something, which seemed to be more appropriate technology on both the above counts, but which is unfortunately not a mature program, more like alpha stage. Oh well. On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:13 PM, drew einhorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Has there been any discussion of this? > > > > Just this list of sites using Semantic MediaWiki is enough to spark some > > interest. > > > > http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Sites_using_Semantic_MediaWiki > > It looks promising for what the Wiki reorganizers are currently trying to > do. > > "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." > > It would be particularly good if integrated into the templates. > > > -- > > Drew Einhorn > > _______________________________________________ > > Library mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library > > > > > > > > -- > Edward Cherlin > End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business > http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ > "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay > _______________________________________________ > Library mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library >
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