Re: Wiki-based vocabulary website idea

WOW! It's actually a perfect use case for Semantic MediaWiki - it has some
broken bones regarding external vocabularies, but collaborative vocabularies
was one of use cases that I (and meny others, I'm sure) was thinking about
all this time!

You can see vocabulary building in action on all SMW sites:
http://smw.referata.com/wiki/Special:BrowseData/Sites

and go to Special:Properties page - here's the example on my
TechPresentations.org:
http://www.techpresentations.org/Special:Properties

I noticed RDFa wiki has SMW installed, but you might want to upgrade to
latest version and install a couple sattelite extensions like Semantic
Forms, Semantic Drilldown, maybe more.

I'll really want to see this vocabulary management community can use real
wiki to operate - while some other, more technical solutions seem to be a
good way to go, they might increase the complexity.

It might revive RDFa support for SMW as well.

I'm CC-ing SMW mailing list on this. Markus, here's why I was so insisting
on fixing smw_import_*.

Thank you,

        Sergey


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


On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>wrote:

> Some of the outstanding projects this community might want to focus on
> has been added to the "Contribute" section on the "Participate" RDFa
> wiki page. Please add to the list if you can think of any more:
>
> http://rdfa.info/wiki/Participate#Contribute
>
> One of the projects that has been rattling around in the back of my head
> for over 2 years now and I just haven't found the time to work on it.
> Putting this out there in case anybody else has been thinking along the
> same lines and has some free time to implement.
>
> The concept is basically a wiki-based vocabulary design website that
> would help web designers create, correct, collaborate on, publish and
> mirror RDF(a) vocabularies:
>
> http://rdfa.info/wiki/wiki-based-vocabulary-website
>
> Please add your thoughts/clarifications/issues to the page (or the
> mailing list).
>
> -- manu
>
> --
> Manu Sporny
> President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> blog: A Collaborative Distribution Model for Music
> http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/04/04/collaborative-music-model/
>
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