From: Patrick N. <ma...@pa...> - 2009-09-24 14:03:16
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Yaron, On Thursday 24 September 2009 13:20:42 Yaron Koren wrote: > On the front page of semantic-mediawiki.org, it states: > > "Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is a free extension of MediaWiki – the > wiki-system powering Wikipedia – that helps to search, organise, > tag, browse, evaluate, and share the wiki's content. While > traditional wikis contain only texts which computers can neither > understand nor evaluate, SMW adds semantic annotations that bring > the power of the Semantic Web to the wiki." > > I was looking at this, and was tempted to re-write the last part to > something like, "that allow a wiki to function as a collaborative > database", because I thought that gave a clearer idea of what SMW > actually does; but then I thought this was part of a broader > question that maybe deserved general discussion. The question is: > how tied in is Semantic MediaWiki with the Semantic Web? Is SMW > basically just an offshoot of the Semantic Web (as the intro has > it), or is the Semantic Web, in the form of RDF export and the like, > a minor, disposable part of SMW? Or is it somewhere in between? I > tend to think that SMW and the Semantic Web, though both important, > are basically independent concepts; though I might be in the > minority on that one. > > There's also the somewhat-independent question of how SMW should be > marketed. Does it bolster SMW to associate it with the Semantic Web, > or does that just confuse people and/or make them think SMW is > basically an academic exercise? Obviously the answer depends a lot > on whom you're marketing to, but what about cases like the SMW > homepage, where you have to have one set of wording for everybody? I don't really have an opinion on this, but I *love* the phrase "collaborative database". It describes exactly what SMW is (for me). :) Patrick. - -- Key ID: 0x86E346D4 http://patrick-nagel.net/key.asc Fingerprint: 7745 E1BE FA8B FBAD 76AB 2BFC C981 E686 86E3 46D4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkq7edUACgkQyYHmhobjRtS7tgCeOEDx9SCvCJoIHuS6/Rlwu/k7 CIsAn2Hw7PDjtm6r9qkdkxneBkqipiN4 =5H3J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |