Re: [SMW-devel] Using SMW

[srecko j. <sre...@gm...>]

Hello Markus,

And thank you very much! This information means a lot to me. At least, I
will not try any more.

Best regards,
Srecko Joksimovic

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Markus Krötzsch <
ma...@se...> wrote:

> On 01/08/11 10:42, srecko joksimovic wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I am new to Semantic MediaWiki, and maybe this is not the place to ask a
>> question like this, but I have a project to finish and I hope someone
>> could help me.
>> The point is that I have my ontology, based on SKOS, with defined
>> concepts. On the other hand, I have text which I should annotate based
>> on this ontology. And the main thing is that I should do that from Java
>> application.
>>
>> Could someone please tell me if it is possible to load my own ontology,
>> and annotate (search concepts in) text, based on that ontology, using
>> SMV as a platform?
>>
>
> Hi Srecko,
>
> I am not sure if SMW is what you need. SMW is used by communities that
> manage data. Doing this leads to a lightweight ontology that is part of the
> wiki content, but it is not possible to use arbitrary ontologies in SMW
> (many features of the OWL ontology language are not used by SMW).
>
> Moreover, SMW is not a text annotation tool. It is possible to maintain the
> semantic data as part of the text in a wiki, but the data is not annotating
> the text. In other words, data always refers to wiki pages, not to sentences
> or words in a text that might be found on a page.
>
> Finally, SMW is not a Java application.
>
> So if your goal is to annotate texts based on a background ontology within
> a Java application, then SMW is not a very good match to your needs. SMW is
> very flexible and can be used for many tasks, but unless you need at least
> some of the features that SMW offers, there is little merit in trying to
> overcome the above limitations.
>
> Regards,
>
> Markus
>