As a general answer: we currently do not consider a feature for adding citations to semantic facts, and I think it is not yet clear how this should best be done in general. If some concrete plans for doing this emerge here, we could consider this after SMW1.0 (we will have to start gathering new feature requests after the release anyway :-).
As S said, n-ary relations are currently the only (still experimental) way of binding multiple facts together in one annotation, but I don't think that n-aries were really tailored for *this* use! So I would not really recommend this unless you have some properties where the citation really is almost a fixed part of the annotation. See further comments below (also relating to Jeff's initial request). On Samstag, 29. September 2007, Dan Bolser wrote: <snip> > > I would really like to see some 'proper' support for citations in MW > (or SMW). I think the biggest current problem is that a citation is > not an 'independent object', but is always found in ad-hoc > associations with facts. I think the fact source (the citation) should > exist in the wiki as a separate page (object) with several internal > relations, such as 'is paper' and 'in journal' etc. etc. Good idea. See my homepage korrekt.org for how this can be used to make a citation database with dynamic publication listings. An example of such a list is http://korrekt.org/index.php/Publications_by_type. I will probably write some tutorial about this when I am done. It turns out that publications can have quite a number of properties, and formatting them with MW templates is some work too. I will also implement some bibtex conversion for MW when I find the time. > > In this way a fact is linked to a citation object, possibly along with > a comment describing the nature of the link. I am somewhat uncertain what a "fact" in general would be. I guess a lot of the citations in current wikis do not refer to single semantic facts, but to more complex or informal statements. I also would like to know *why* one would want to annotate semantic facts with sources. Do you want to take this into account for searching or browsing? I mean, having data available is always nice, but which current functions of SMW would actually benefit from citations that are attached to semantic facts (note that SMW queries have no explanation feature: they cannot currently tell you, which facts an answer was based on)? Cheers, Markus > > I am still learning about SMW stuff, so please slap me if the above looks > dumb. > > I am planning to integrate some 'deep' citation support here; > > http://introductome.org/ > > > But for the time being its just an advert for wish-list functionality. > > Dan. > > > 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 -- Markus Krötzsch Institut AIFB, Universät Karlsruhe (TH), 76128 Karlsruhe phone +49 (0)721 608 7362 fax +49 (0)721 608 5998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www http://korrekt.org
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