Yeah, I tried to go to that, but the conference wasn't working for me.
Will check out the ppt though. thanks.
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From: Laurent Alquier <[email protected]>
To: don undeen <[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, November 4, 2010 12:57:20 PM
Subject: Re: [SMW-devel] Interest in SMW in Museum/Cultural sector
Actually, this presentation scheduled for today's SMW developer call looks like
a good example of large scale data integration exercise using SMW.
http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Battlespace_Luminary_System
Check out the Powerpoint on that page.
- Laurent
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:21 PM, don undeen <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
>I just thought I'd give you an update on some presentations I did this past
>week
>in the museum/cultural sector on SMW, and the excellent response I've been
>receiving there.
>
>The first talk I gave was as the Museum Computer Network Conference, MCN2010.
>The title of the talk was "Semantic Mediawiki for Easy Data Integration." My
>general thesis was that a combination of templates, forms, auto-page-creating
>properties, and the ExternalData extension, can allow us to integrate data
>from
>a variety of sources, without doing any up-front database design or data
>mapping. The talk was short (5 minutes), so I don't have many slides. But
>after
>the talk was a table session where I answered questions from those in the
>audience who were interested (they had 4 topics to choose from). My table was
>by far the most populated, i'd say about 30 people from museums and cultural
>institutions around the world were very interested, and engaged me with
>challenging questions regarding this approach. Museums have a big job trying
>to
>communicate information with each other regarding their objects; a typical
>project is very task-specific (say, a particular website or research project),
>and involves massive data transfer, as well as data standards negotiation,
>target database design, data mapping, and vendor relationships. Lots of
>museums
>don't have the resources to do it at all. They really liked the idea that a
>SMW
>installation could be a low barrier-to-entry "sandbox" where they could put
>all
>this data together and see how well it integrates.
>
>I didn't try to say "this is your data integration app," but rather "this is a
>tool that let's you SEE the data AS you're doing the planning."
>The reason I played down the enterprise-level quality of SMW is that frankly
>I
>don't have good data on scalability. Museums have a LOT of data, and I don't
>have the resources here to really scale out my wiki that large. Plus I haven't
>resolved some bugs, usability, and UI issues; that may be my fault (not
>keeping
>up with all the upgrades), or rough edges in SMW.
>
>Just letting you all know that the interest is there in this industry, for
>this
>problem space. If someone can demonstrate scalability and a streamlines user
>experience, they could really do good work with museums.
>
>
>I'll be putting together a more detailed document on how I set all this up.
>
>
>Also, I went to a smaller meeting in Washington DC, to discuss the development
>of a documentation management system for Museum Conservators. Another
>international group, with funding for development. In my own museum, I've been
>using SMW for rapid prototyping and data staging. I'll be using it in this
>project for data staging; but I don't feel that the SMW is flexible enough in
>the UI to use it for app prototyping for this project. Also there are a few
>conflicts between this software's projected workflow, and what SMW supports.
>Again, maybe this will turn out not to be true. But in any case, I'll be
>putting
>the SMW software in front of these heavy-duty knowledge workers (conservators
>are actually scientists with heavy data analysis needs). I'll let you know
>what
>kind of feedback I get from them.
>
>Again, I'll be putting together a doc (a different one, focused on
>prototyping)
>that describes this software setup in more detail.
>
>anyways, just thought I'd let you know that there's now this new group of
>people
>out there who are using the term "Semantic Wiki" with a gleam in their eyes.
>:)
>. And hopefully my institution will be allocating more of my time to work with
>SMW.
>
>Let me know if you've got any questions.
>
>cheers all, and thanks for making me look good!
>
>Don Undeen
>Metropolitan Museum of Art
>
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