I'm responding, but I don't have the answers. Jeff Thompson wrote: > What are the plans in Semantic Mediawiki to capture citations? I ask because, > for a "cited by" property, the subject is not the article, but a particular > assertion made within the article. > > For example the article for Germany: > http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Germany > says it has > [[area::357,050km²]] > > This might be followed by a citation link to the World Factbook, but the link > is not > connected in a semantic way.
N-ary relations in 1.0 pre-alpha let you create [[Property:Area]] with multiple types [[has type::Area; URI]] , and then you can say has area [[area::357,050km² ; https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gm.html]] The second value is optional. I made Property:Area_test Try it, http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Sandbox#Area_with_citation This currently exports in RDF as:, <property:Area_test-23m-26sup2-3B-3B> <smw:nary1 rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#float";>357050000000</smw:nary1> <smw:nary2 rdf:datatype="">https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gm.html</smw:nary2> </property:Area_test-23m-26sup2-3B-3B> The area type has units m², I think that's why they become an encoded part of the property name (#m²;). Within this property, you just have to know that the second value is a citation. If you don't like the display format then you could use a template that provides alternate text after '|'. There might be a way to tie into Mediawiki's reference support (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes) so that the citation appears in a footnote. I think <ref> information is structural rather than semantic. > You might add a property inside the assertion like this: > > [[area::357,050km² [[cited > by::https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gm.html]] > ]] That won't work. Nor can you have the citation in the alternate display text after '|'. 1.0 seems to better support wiki formatting in the displayed text, but not a nested property. > If not this, then are there plans to formally capture citations? I don't know. People on this mailing list have discussed the limitations of n-ary relations as a collection of types rather than nested properties. Hope this helps, -- =S Page ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
