Hi Nate, Hi Günther, thanks for your interest and your kind words.
The changes that Markus mentioned are indeed severe -- but only under the hood. Our development strategy is to always be able to point to the current SVN version and say "Hey, you can use that!" -- and that's what I would encourage anyway. We have now a simple "Update" Button inside the wiki, so basically all you need to do is update the SVN and click on that one button. That's at least what we hope :) We don't know for sure when 0.7 will be released. Releasing means for us to take a snapshot of the wiki and tag a new version number to it. There are no extra tests run on that. Although we do plan to set up regression tests and some other goodies very soon! But this again will be something that the SVN version will also benefit from. Actually, the whole notion of releases is somewhat outdated on the web today... With regards to the n-ary relations: we are currently investigating possible solutions for this problem, and we plan to implement one of them in a medium time frame. If you have a clever idea how to represent n-ary relations in a generic and still user friendly way, please tell us so! We didn't find a solution everyone's happy with yet. Cheers, denny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to second Nate's thanks to the SMW developers and contributers. > > I'm also rather new to SMW and have a similar problem/question. I want to use > SMW for biological annotation data. It looks for me difficult to accomplish > that > without using n-ary relations. I came across BOWiki which used SMW 0.4 as > basis > to integrate and support n-ary relations but as far as I can see their changes > are so severe that it is now a different, alternative semantic extention to > MediaWiki, incompatible with SMW and so any improvements in SMW couldn't be > used > there. > > So my question would be if there are any plans to implement something similar > like BOWiki did in SMW to allow n-ary relations or if there is maybe a > practical > way to use constructs (as suggested in the W3C Working Group article) to > implement n-ary like behaviour in SMW resp. specify some sort of qualifiers > for > a relation? > > Thanks, > Günther > > > Quoting Nate Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Greetings, all, >> >> Over the past month I've been learning about SMW bit by bit, and I >> plan to use it as part of a Web-based project I'll be launching >> shortly. First things first: My sincere thanks for all the effort >> that many have devoted to the project. Even to this SemWeb novice, >> it's very cool stuff, and I'm excited to see how it shapes up in the >> coming months. >> >> Second, a basic question: Given current development work and the road >> map for stable releases, would you recommend to someone like me to >> simply wait until version .7 is released before I even begin using >> SMW at all? In other words, are the changes in the .7 code >> substantial enough, and is the estimated release date of .7 close >> enough, to wait it out? >> >> My question is prompted by mentions of various code changes sprinkled >> around the mailing lists, and perhaps especially by this post from >> Markus: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php? >> msg_id=38122827. I'm in a situation where I can afford to wait a >> little while, but on the other hand, if the costs of waiting to >> "build out" my SMW-enabled wiki outweigh the benefits, I'd obviousy >> rather get on with it! >> >> Thanks for your time, and I look forward to our discussions ahead. :) >> >> All best, >> >> Nate >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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-user mailing list >> Semediawiki-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user >> > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. 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