Semantic MediaWiki Package
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A Semantic MediaWiki Package is a MediaWiki extension that provides semantic wiki system capabilities.
- AKA: SMW.
- Context:
- It is a MediaWiki extension created in 2005 by Markus Krötzsch, Denny Vrandečić et al.
- It enables adding queriable data to wiki pages.
- It has a Basic syntax: [[Property name::value]]
- It enables adding queriable data to wiki pages.
- Example(s):
- Semantic MediaWiki 2.5.0[1] (2017-04-13).
- Semantic MediaWiki 2.3[2].
- Semantic MediaWiki 2.2[3]. (2015-05-09).
- Semantic MediaWiki 2.0[4].
- Semantic MediaWiki 1.8[5]. (2012-12-02)
- Semantic MediaWiki 1.6[6].
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Semantic Wiki, Semantic Web.
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki Retrieved:2015-8-14.
- Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is an extension to MediaWiki that allows for annotating semantic data within wiki pages, thus turning a wiki that incorporates the extension into a semantic wiki. Data that has been encoded can be used in semantic searches, used for aggregation of pages, displayed in formats like maps, calendars and graphs, and exported to the outside world via formats like RDF and CSV.
- http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_Semantic_MediaWiki#Where_SMW_can_help
- Semantic MediaWiki introduces some additional markup into the wiki-text which allows users to add "semantic annotations" to the wiki. While this at first appears to make things more complex, it can also greatly simplify the structure of the wiki, help users to find more information in less time, and improve the overall quality and consistency of the wiki. Here are some of the benefits of using SMW:
- Automatically-generated lists. Lists and tables are a natural way to view information at a glance. In some cases, non-semantic wikis contain human-generated lists; Wikipedia itself has thousands, like “List of metropolitan areas in Spain by population”. These lists are prone to errors, since they have to be updated manually. Furthermore, the number of potentially interesting lists is huge, and it is impossible to provide all of them in acceptable quality. In SMW, lists are generated automatically like this. They are always up-to-date and can easily be customised to obtain further information.
- Visual display of information. The various display formats defined by additional extensions, such as Semantic Result Formats and Semantic Maps, allow for displaying of information in calendars, timelines, graphs and maps, among others, providing a much richer view of the data than simple lists and tables would.
- Improved data structure. MediaWiki wikis tend to make heavy use of categories for structuring data. While these are generally helpful, consider the category on Wikipedia called “1620s births"; if the information in these pages were stored using SMW, these categories could be replaced by simple semantic values, reducing the need for a complex classification system. In addition, if semantic markup within the wiki is stored within templates, otherwise known as semantic templates, a wiki can easily gain a solid data structure. And the Semantic Forms extension lets administrators create forms for adding and editing the data within semantic templates, thus making the addition of semantic information even easier and more straightforward than using regular wiki text.
- Searching information. Individual users can search for specific information by creating their own queries, supported via extensions like Semantic Drilldown and Semantic Forms.
- External reuse. Data, once it is created in an SMW wiki, does not have to remain within the wiki; it can easily be exported via formats like CSV and JSON. This enables an SMW wiki to serve as a data source for other applications, or, in the case of enterprise usages, to take over the role that a relational database would normally play. Through the use of the External Data extension, SPARQL, and other tools, one SMW-based wiki can even use the data from another, eliminating the need for redundancy between wikis. You can also query SMW's data from outside the wiki, via the API or an RDF triplestore.
- Integrate and mash-up data. Data contained in an SMW installation does not have to be an isolated store of information. Extensions such as Data Transfer and External Data empower you to integrate external data (coming e.g. from legacy systems, web services or linked data sources) and interrelate it with existing semantic data in the wiki. Thus, an SMW-powered wiki can serve as a central information hub in an IT landscape.
- Semantic MediaWiki introduces some additional markup into the wiki-text which allows users to add "semantic annotations" to the wiki. While this at first appears to make things more complex, it can also greatly simplify the structure of the wiki, help users to find more information in less time, and improve the overall quality and consistency of the wiki. Here are some of the benefits of using SMW:
2011
- http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki
- Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is a free, open-source extension to MediaWiki – the wiki software that powers Wikipedia – that lets you store and query data within the wiki's pages. Semantic MediaWiki is also a full-fledged framework, in conjunction with many spinoff extensions, that can turn a wiki into a powerful and flexible “collaborative database”. All data created within SMW can easily be published via the Semantic Web, allowing other systems to use this data seamlessly.