comments Wiki use case

Couple of first impressionist thoughts -

1. while extracted RDF could be really useful in declaratively
changing the view of the Wiki, this in itself seems more oriented
towards the presentation end rather than the data provision GRDDL
enables *

2. what would potentially be of direct benefit for the Wiki user would
be the ability to add RDF-based navigation (along the lines of the
viewing side of the Semantic Mediawiki [1]) by following a few
conventions (a la microformats) and using of-the-shelf RDF browsing
tools like the Tabulator [2] or Longwell [3], without having to hack
the core model of the Wiki system.

Cheers,
Danny.

[1] http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki
[2] http://www.w3.org/2005/ajar/tab
[3] http://simile.mit.edu/wiki2/Longwell

* for some dayjob work recently I set up some presentation stuff not
dissimilar conceptually to the Fresnel idea, but based on SPARQL+XSLT.
A first query would CONSTRUCT a graph mapping the domain results to a
report description vocabulary. A second SELECT query, only including
terms from the report ontology would then be run against that graph.
This would then be XSLT'd to HTML. The general approach worked a
treat, there being  separation between the data side of the system and
the presentation side - the second query and the XSLT acting like
domain-independent templates.  I must write it up properly sometime,
but I've abandoned it for the dayjob task, the XSLT 1.0 was too much
like hard work for reports (Muenchian method etc).


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Received on Thursday, 17 August 2006 09:49:26 UTC