Hi, I've only recently just subscribed to the list and have been waiting to write anything until I'd had the time to catch up a little on the mailing list and current dev. plans.
It's debatable whether I've figured out what's going on but I'll ask my questions anyway... :-) --- I think the Semediawiki project is great and have used it as one of the building blocks for an ongoing investigation of how to make it easy enough for people to bother putting information *in* to a system in a way that makes it easy enough to bother getting it back out. I've written a fair amount about this recently, and if you have a few minutes and a fresh cup of coffee the short version is over here : http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2006/12/17/meat/#papernet http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2006/09/28/bake/#easy http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2007/02/17/platform/#wall So I went ahead and built some of what's described above with no-longer current versions of MW and SMW; 0.8 and 0.5 respectively...I think. (If you want to play with any of the sites described in all that talk, send me an email offlist.) --- It's all good except for the part where there wasn't any sort of "API" for doing stuff outside the existing webpages. Specifically, I wanted: * The ability to query to (S)MW database *outside* of (S)MW; I'm sure it's possible to make a mobile "skin" but I was up to my neck already in MW newness and just wanted to generate a bare-bones query UI * More sophisticated search pages; this involves fetching lists of distinct S/P/Os (assuming the O is a literal) * The ability to query for multiple triples (AND-ing or OR-ing; I just did a quick and dirty AND) * The ability to generate a "raw" (unformatted) dump of the resultset as a plain vanilla data structure; where data structure could be JSON or XML or RDF/XML. The distinction between the last two being that the former can be easily post-processed with XPath and other XML tools and latter, depending on the output format, not so much. So I did all this. But it is ugly and very much done in isolation. I had never looked at the source for (S)MW when I started and was more interested in just getting stuff working than doing it Right (tm). These are all features I'd like to see in SMW so, time permitting, I'm happy to roll up my sleeves and contribute patches. --- But. It seems like most/much of this should be possible using "templates" in 0.7. Crazy talk? Searchiness is probably best handled by some sort of SPARQL interface. Is this already on the roadmap? Has anyone considered the applicability of something like SPASQL? [1] Searching for "SPASQL and semediawiki" yields no love. --- Cheers, --- [1] http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/paper/156 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
