Uno dei  più famosi strumenti di scrittura collaborativa si arricchisce del valore aggiunto offerto dalle tecnologie semantiche e si evolve in SemanticMediaWiki+

Browse the SMW+ User Forum to find extensive help, how-to’s and screencasts, documenting the powerful features of SMW+

Per esempio, nel caso si volessero importare nel proprio Wiki i dati esterni in pieno stile w3c, ecco come fare con  Data Import Extension :

The Data Import extension enables users to integrate external data into the Wiki in two different ways. First the Web Service component allows to call external SOAP or RESTful web services from within the Wiki. Second the Term Import Framework component allows to import the terms of a vocabulary into the Wiki.

The SMW+ User Forum is wiki for users and developers of Semantic MediaWiki+ in a commercial or production environment with the purpose to improve and extend Semantic Media Wiki+. The SMW+ User Forum brings together the social networking aspect of Web 2.0 with semantic technologies.

Tutto nasce dalla condivisione di una evoluzione della visione in collaborative mood del web 2.0 esteso alle teconologie semantiche:

SMW+ (short for Semantic MediaWiki+) is an enterprise semantic wiki distributed by ontoprise GmbH. Technically speaking, it is a ready-to-use and preconfigured bundle of MediaWiki extensions, most notably Semantic MediaWiki and Halo Extension. SMW+ is designed to leverage the hidden knowledge often locked up in unstructured content. It combines the collaborative authoring approach of a wiki with proven semantic technology.

Anche l’UNESCO  ha scelto il valore aggiunto SMW+:

“We are very pleased to have been chosen by UNESCO IOC (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission) as the provider of the platform for this project”, says Hans-Peter Schnurr, CEO and co-founder of ontoprise GmbH. “The choice of ontoprise is a proof to the fact that ontoprise has gained an international recognition as a provider of best-of-breed semantic Wiki technology as well as a high-profile implementation and service partner.”

Le features di rilievo sono di seguito elencate:

IOC’s enhanced SMW+ distribution comes with features such as support of different file publishing formats such as WikiText, MS Word, MS Powerpoint, MS Excel, video and audio, full text search for all documents, semantic tree control for browsing, automated glossary, personal protected folders for document creation (access rights system), approval workflow and semantic annotation. This state-of-the-art functionality of SMW+ translates into benefits that can be clearly measured including shared administration and creation of content, different views on content, integration into an existing systems environment or re-use of created content.

Together they provide for an intelligent content management, thus promising a high level of accep-tance of the future “ocean teacher” among the user community within a very short time frame. This is ensured by smart content management such as more precise search hits or flexible content structur-ing. The different documents are semantically annotated. Therefore it is possible to present informa-tion focussed for the different target groups like inexperienced or advanced users.

Per essere aggiornati sullo stato dell’arte del progetto e per i tuoi  contributi hai a disposizione la Community.

This blog informs about progress of the project and interesting issues in the semantic world.

Il wiki dunque da Content Repository si evolve allo stato superiore di Knowledge Repository. Infatti, ai tre punti forti del wiki :

1) Hierarchical structure of pages — unless you maintain multiple hierarchical relationships (or references) of your pages, you have to always remember where a specific page content (or topic) may exist. Not only that but the consumers of this content must also always be aware of the structure or taxonomy. In the absence of this, endless navigation through the trees or wildcard searches are the only other way to find what you (or they) seek. In the corporate environment, people seldom have the time or opportunity to construct such taxonomies unless it is a dedicated activity or the wiki package comes with some pre-defined and ready-to-use templates.

2) Content updates — Once a wiki grows to hundreds or thousands of pages, it is much more difficult to find content and keep it up-to-date since it is a manual process. However, if you can’t keep it current then the repository loses its credibility and the wikis quickly become shelf-ware.

3) Contextual relevance — While people create content on the wikis at will, its organization and hierarchy are often pretty arbitrary. Furthermore, there may or may not be a context associated with the content, or perhaps if there is one, it is implied by the author. So you end up with lots of content without any seemingly contextual relevance. Once again, something that becomes difficult to maintain and leverage over time

si è aggiunto il valore semantico:

Semantic annotations would allow content to become much more self-organized, accessible using contextual searches and queries and updatable using software agents (where relevant) — all adding up to some powerful capabilities.

Per l’estensione Halo al semanticMediaWiki ecco il source  download

Per la release SMW+1.4.4  e relativi manuali, ecco il link

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