On Monday 10 April 2006 04:33, HumanCell .org wrote:
PS. Just found Semantic MediaWiki which looks very
interesting.
Yes, this could indeed be a nice use case for this extension. It gives
you some more freedom for describing relationships between your articles,
and maybe there are also other properties that one could associate with
some compounds (e.g. molecular mass).
Easy export of RDF is one obvious advange, but I'm not sure what other
benefits there are of using the extension.
As you have seen, the extension currently is in development. Right now it is
mostly useful if you have external software to work on (parts of) your data.
In this case, you could use the RDF export to reuse wiki-data elsewhere, e.g.
in some search or statistics service. For instance we have an (experimental)
external service set up where you can ask advanced queries over the data, but
this part is Java at the moment. Improved non-Java internal search functions
are planned, but not included in the current version yet.
Here is an example of any entry (no taxonomic
information is shown):
http://www.humancell.org/index.php/CHEBI15334
The data I see there is of course highly specific, and I am not sure how a
search engine for such structures should even look like. So the bottleneck
for processing this data might not be the task of getting it into a standard
format like RDF, but to find a usable application that allows you to do thing
like to search for certain (implicit) chemical/structural features in your
compound base. Since you work with templates, annotation can actually be done
without too much effort by just evaluating the template (as in the German
"Personendaten" project). Semantic MediaWiki can also be used to annotate
templates, so you need not bother with annotating the articles themselves.
If the taxonomy is all that you need, categories
could also be a
sufficient solution -- the displayed article names really seem to be your
only problem here. Would it help to create redirects between articles
with nice names and articles with ugly names (note that you would also
have to use "plus" for "+" etc.)? If the category mechanism is used
only
for browsing, then this might already suffice.
I agree, I had thought of using redirects too and I think this is the way
to go.
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Markus Krötzsch
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