I would like to setup a wiki on my notebook for my
study and research
notes and book excerpts. Puzzling around with hundreds of text files is
quite unsatisfactory. Besides, having used wikipedia online for a while
my way of thinking started to be wikified ;-)
I encourage you to do this! I use a local wiki for about2 years now,
havin about 3000 pages - and I still like it. What I do not like, is
that my wiki is a bit dumb. That's why we create an extension to
MediaWiki, called Semantic MediaWiki [1], which allows to use a
(quite) simple syntax to state link types. This open a whole world of
structuring abilities that goes beyond categories. Youn can have RDF
export of your wiki and then do SPARQL queries on you knowledge. It's
like creating a database foru your stuff on the fly without ever
thinking about the tables. You just write on the page of "Berlin":
... is the [[captial of::Germany]] ... then, later you can query your
wiki for "*, captial of, Germany" and get Berlin back. That'S quite
different from a keyword or backlink search. It's like the next step.
It's easy to install, too. You just install MediaWiki and then a
MediaWiki extension [2]. Enjoy!
[1] about & demo:
http://wiki.ontoworld.org
[2] software:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/semediawiki
Kind regards,
Max Völkel
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Dipl.-Inform. Max Völkel, Universität Karlsruhe / FZI
nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org
voelkel(a)fzi.de +49 721 9654-854
www.xam.de
First Workshop on Semantic Wikis:
http://semwiki.org