LOD, TechPresentations.org and Semantic MediaWiki

Hi,

My name is Sergey Shernyshev and I'm running TechPresentations.org project
using Semantic MediaWiki (SMW).

Currently I'm thinking about making the dataset more open and want to
connect it to LOD through presentation topics that I recently introduced
into the project.
I wonder if someone can give me any recomendations about going open?

I see two major parts here:
1. Using some open vocabulary for describing the data. The question here is
how do I find a vocabulary? The only one relatively close to
TechPresentations is http://www.w3.org/2004/08/Presentations.owl (thanks to
Ivan Herman for this!), but it's definitely geared towards w3c's activities
and I don't know if there is anything else beyond that on the market, will
appreciate any thoughts and suggestions.

2. Connecting to LOD dataset. Being quite new to the project, I have very
vague idea of the process and will be happy to get a pointer to some
documentation about it. SMW is a great tool and I'll be happy to work with
it's development team to incorporate all the best practices that will make
all SMW-powered sites a potential source for LOD data, I just need to get
better understanding of the requirements.

Right now I'm just working on adding "Equivalent URI" SMW special property
to pages which get translated to "owl:sameAs" on RDF export - you can see an
example of the page here: http://www.techpresentations.org/MySQL (factbox at
the bottom links to DBPedia's http://dbpedia.org/resource/MySQL) and
http://www.techpresentations.org/Special:ExportRDF/MySQL - RDF export for
the page (you can see <owl:sameAs rdf:resource="
http://dbpedia.org/resource/MySQL"/> being added).

I also have some ideas on how SMW and it's extensions (Semantic Forms,
Semantic Drilldown and some visualization extensions like Semantic Google
Maps and etc.) can be useful for LOD project, for example, it can be used as
publicly open editor for interconnections between various datasets. I'll be
happy to discuss them with the community if there is interest in this
technology.

Thank you,

          Sergey


-- 
Sergey Chernyshev
http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/