Semantic MediaWiki
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| Semantic MediaWiki | |
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| Developer: | Wikimedia (developers) |
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| Latest release: | 0.5 / August 14, 2006 |
| OS: | Cross-platform |
| Use: | MediaWiki extension |
| License: | GPL |
| Website: | Semantic MediaWiki |
The Semantic MediaWiki is an extension to the MediaWiki software (which also runs Wikipedia), which allows every user to make information more accessible to computer programs (including the ask query and the triple search available in SMW itself), which in turn makes it easier for humans to search or further use this information.
Semantic MediaWiki offers two means to make information about a page more explicit:
- Categorization of links (relations between pages)
- Typed attributes (of a page)
As an example, the page Berlin might say, that it is the capital of Germany. Now, in the Semantic MediaWiki, users can type the link, thus making the relation (capital of) between Berlin and Germany explicit.
On the page Berlin, the syntax would be
... [[capital of::Germany]] ...
resulting in the semantic statement "Berlin" "capital of" "Germany".
On the page Berlin, it might say the population is 3,393,933. In the Semantic MediaWiki, users can make this information explicit, by writing
... the population is [[population:=3,993,933]] ...
resulting in the semantic statement "Berlin" "has population" "3993933".
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Semantic MediaWiki mail lists, extension release and source code at sourceforge
- An implementation of Semantic MediaWiki ("semanticwiki.jp")
- Ontoworld.org - a wiki for semantic web information, with a focus on Semantic MediaWiki; runs on Semantic MediaWiki
- Sites using Semantic MediaWiki
