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Semantic MediaWiki as OpenData hub / OpenGLAM tool

August 10th, 2014

Bernhard Krabina

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Introduction

KDZ – Centre for Public Administration Research

Open Knowledge – Austrian Chapter

Semantic MediaWiki

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Agenda

Semantic MediaWiki and it‘s relevance

SMW as producer of Open Data

Consuming open data with SMW

Conclusion and outlook

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Wikipedia – Wikimedia – Mediawiki

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Wikis and Data extract structured information from

Wikipedia and make this information available on the Web

free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike… central storage for the data that may be accessed by the client Wikis

lets you store and query data within the wiki's pages. Turns a wiki into a powerful and flexible knowledge management system.

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Semantic MediaWiki

Unstructured Text

Strenghts of Wikis

Structure via Categories and Namespaces

Full Text Search

Collaborative editing

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Structured Data

Web database

Online forms

Result lists

Facetted search

Automatically generated pages

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Semantic MediaWiki

leaves your MediaWiki installation intact no patching, just a (bunch of) MW extension(s) already existing unstructured content can stay as it is or be

transformed

gives you all the tools you need for a collaborative web database

entering data and text representing data and text within the wiki visualise data re-use/export data outside the wiki

everything is done through configuration Attributes, Forms, Templates, Filters… are wiki pages

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Agenda

Semantic MediaWiki and it‘s relevance

SMW as producer of Open Data

Consuming open data with SMW

Conclusion and outlook

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Vienna Historical Wiki(to be released on September 11th, 2014)

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„Bennant nach“ = „named after“

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{{#ask:…}} query for pages named after „Sigmund Freud“

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List all pages of Category:Person with Birthyear::1856 and Sex::male

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RDF export = Open Data!

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> 40 different „result formats“

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Agenda

Semantic MediaWiki and it‘s relevance

SMW as producer of Open Data

Consuming open data with SMW

Conclusion and outlook

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External Data Extension

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Names of Cemetries in Vienna published in the OGD catalogue data.gv.at – reused in a wiki

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Agenda

Semantic MediaWiki and it‘s relevance

SMW as producer of Open Data

Consuming open data with SMW

Conclusion and outlook

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Semantic MediaWiki

Use cases

Intranet portals

Project management and –documentation

Internal Knowlege Management

Knowledge Portals (external)

Web databases

Case/Skills Management

OpenGLAM/crowdsourcing

SemanticWeb projects

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Relevance of Semantic MediaWiki

WikiData is great for Wikipedia

Semantic MediaWiki is great for wikis outside of Wikpedia and web based knowledge management systems

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Contact

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Bernhard Krabina

krabina@kdz.or.at

Hope to see you in Vienna!