Well, the semantic web is really all about querying data that exists on other sites, as opposed to importing data directly; and there are actually two projects going on to enable SMW wikis to query the data from other SMW wikis. One, at RPI, is working on a new extension called "AskMany", which would allow querying many wikis at the same time:
http://tw.rpi.edu/wiki/Image:AskMany.pdf The other, at MIT/Karlsruhe, is working on an #ask query format called "remote", which would allow querying a single other wiki: http://wiki.geekworks.de/SMWANDEXHIBIT.pdf I know the two projects know about one another, although I don't know if there's any coordination going on between the two. -Yaron On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Daniel Friesen <dan_the_...@telus.net>wrote: > I can think of a beneficial feature to smw which would be good for it > and the web. > > Besides creating a SPARQL endpoint, and exporting RDF data, Semantic > MediaWiki is pretty closed off with it's own data. All of the page info > and such is restricted to that data which you annotate articles with. > But, what about other wiki? > > I think a real useful feature would be a method of periodically loading > semantic data from one wiki into another. Not as an import, but > basically on a cron job or job que going in, loading a set of semantic > data into the table (either another set of tables; or by adding an id > into the current tables to mark what wiki the data comes from). Then > this data would be seamlessly used within the wiki. Ideally, this would > probably be something that integrates with interwiki links, meaning any > wiki inside the interwiki table could have semantic data imported into > the wiki, as well this would make integrating Page type data on another > wiki real nice and clean (using interwiki links to all non-local > semantic data). All that data would become queryable. > Basically kind of like this: > > Germany wiki > ==[[Bexbach]]== > [[Population::19218]] > [[Area::31.08 km²]] > ==[[Detmold]]== > [[Population::73707]] > [[Area::129.39 km²]] > > England Wiki > ==[[Cambridge]]== > [[Population::120000]] > [[Area::115.65 km²]] > > World Wiki > Imports from Germany: and England: interwiki. > For what the wiki cares you can query: > {{#ask: [[Population::+]] | ?Population | ?Area }} > And get the table: > Page Population Area > [[Germany::Bexbach|]] 19218 31.08 km² > [[Germany::Detmold|]] 73707 129.39 km² > [[England::Cambridge|]] 120000 115.65 km² > > I believe this was actually the bigger idea of the "Semantic Web", > individual resources being handling information, other resources being > able to query out that data, reuse it, and add in their own data, and in > turn export more data into the web. In this case, the Semantic Wiki Web, > it would be possible for piles of semantically enabled wiki to annotate > data on their topics, similar more broad wiki could go and import > semantics from many semantically enabled wiki, combine together data, > query it out, and create info on an even broader scale, while keeping > that fine grain of detail. > There are a number of individual anime wiki out on the internet, some > are starting to become semantically enabled. It would be an extremely > interesting possibility if one wiki just about anime, could import > semantics from all those wiki, > If necessary, we could always setup the semantic import using a kind of > import concept (concept being the query concepts we currently have) > which would restrict what data to import from wiki on an interwiki link, > if necessary it could perhaps rename even. > > -- > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) > ~Profile/Portfolio: http://nadir-seen-fire.com > -The Nadir-Point Group (http://nadir-point.com) > --It's Wiki-Tools subgroup (http://wiki-tools.com) > --The ElectronicMe project (http://electronic-me.org) > -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG) > --Animepedia (http://anime.wikia.com) > --Narutopedia (http://naruto.wikia.com) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-devel mailing list > Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel >
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