For what it's worth, my opinions on the matter can be found here:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wiki.semediawiki.user/3001
-Yaron
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Dan Bolser <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/3/17 John McClure <[email protected]>:
> >
> > Hi -
> > I'm wondering if this is the right place to ask about what looks like a
> > contradiction in smw, or maybe I'm not understanding the whole picture
> > yet... It seems that a [[category]] on a page is equivalent to an
> rdf:type,
> > but if it's on a category: page, then it happens to be interpreted as an
> > owl:subClassOf. So I'm wondering if category: pages can equally have
> > owl:Class semantics, especially the specification of multiple filters
> (aka
> > Restrictions) as superclasses?
> >
> > Personally I'd rather see [[category]] on category pages be consistently
> > interpreted as <rdf:type> for all pages in a semwiki. Because mechanisms
> in
> > place can equate owl: with the property: namespace, standard properties
> can
> > be used to describe a category as a semantic object. I'd go a little
> > farther. I've noticed that categories are very often used to associate
> > instances with lists; properties from the skos namespace might be good to
> > hold these relations. Finally, dc: namespace properties could be a very
> > minimal semantic skin for certain magic wiki words relevant to a page.
> There
>
>
> > are surely other namespaces to look at, but generally it might be a good
> > idea if smw installs a package of standard namespaces to reflect its own
> > architecture, and to treat [[category]] consistently.
>
> I think this is a great idea. I noticed, for example, here:
>
> http://smw.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page
>
>
> Discussion of the concept of a SMW 'package': "which are collections
> of wiki pages defining properties, templates, forms etc. that can be
> imported into one's wiki to create an instant data structure."
>
> It really seems like such 'packages' (object models) should be 'self
> describing' on the wikis that use them. i.e. the components of the
> wiki used to construct such models should be associated with the
> appropriate semantic markup, allowing the object to be exported via
> RDF.
>
>
>
> > Thanks for your insights!
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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