Semantic MediaWiki

Toni Hermoso Pulido

(@toniher)

a platform for tagging and curating Digital Humanities

projects

What is Semantic MediaWiki?

• http://www.semantic-mediawiki.org
• Strictly speaking: MediaWiki (CMS behind Wikipedia)
• Extensions and skins ecosystem that use and complement this latter extension
• Free Software

What does Semantic MediaWiki offer?

• It allows have structuring data from a wiki platform
• It enables querying structured data using a SQL-like language
• It allows data import/export (interconnection with other services) via REST APIs and potentially also Semantic Web technologies (RDF -> SPARQL)

Other possibilities it offers...

• Default wiki revision and tracking system
• Permissions and roles depending on the content
• Easier data input thanks to forms (Page Forms)
• etc.

Some applications

• Information repositories and knowledge management systems (semantic-empowered encyclopedias)
• Both database backend and interface with collaborative component...
• Tracking and report systems and workflows
• etc.

SMW & Wikidata