Hi Daniel, D> In a more general query language this would be D> acheived by defining a relation "brother" as two people with the D> same father, and then constructing the desired query. Welcome to the world of OWL and knowledge representation. I guess such things are possible by using an inference engine and some additional OWL statements. You can get all Semantic MediaWiki data in OWL. But - I don't believe such questions are mainstream, so we should carefully balance expressivity vs. ease of use.
D> Another difficulty I've run into is discovering that there is a D> piece of semantic data which needs to be added to many pages. In D> the above example, having tagged all the English monarchs as D> [[title:=King]], we may decide we want to add French monarchs as D> well. So now we need to add [[country ruled:=England]] to all the D> existing pages. It would be nice to have an automatic way to do D> that. Perhaps if we made some attributes heritable, so that if we D> tag Richard III with [[suceeded::Edward IV]] then Richard III will D> automagically inherit the property "country ruled." Hmm, instead of inheriting one could create some refactoring tools for wikis. I believe the MediaWiki guys have alot of scripts for such tasks already. The good thing about scripts and explicit tags is, it is easier to understand and fix than some hidden tag inheritance. Just my random thoughts, Kind Regards, Max -- Max Völkel office: +49 721 9654-854 http://Xam.de mobile: +49 171 8359678 FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik http://www.FZI.de an der Universität Karlsruhe telephone: +49-721-9654-0 Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14 fax: +49-721-9654-959 D-76131 Karlsruhe Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts. Az: 14-0563.1 Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe. Vorstand: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rüdiger Dillmann, Dipl. Wi.-Ing. Michael Flor, Prof. Dr. Dr.-Ing. Jivka Ovtcharova, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Rudi Studer. Vorsitzender des Kuratoriums: Ministerialdirigent Günther Leßnerkraus. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
