On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 07:17:50PM +0200, Steve Bennett wrote:
Can you explain the goals of "semantic
markup" a bit further, so I can
give a meaningful reply?
I'm not one of the developers of the Semantic Mediawiki extension, but I
am a user (most notably on the Bible Wiki at
http://bible.tmtm.com/)
and for me the two key goals are:
1) Internal queries - being able, for example, to dynamically
display a list of all the rulers of Judah in chronological order
(
http://bible.tmtm.com/wiki/King_of_Judah)
2) External queries - the data that is annotated in the text can be
retrieved as RDF (
http://bible.tmtm.com/wiki/Special:ExportRDF/Rehoboam)
which can then be fed into an RDF reasoner. As well as being able to
use this data locally, this will become increasingly useful as search
engines start to gain the ability to work with structured data rather
than just raw text. (See announcement just this week for Pingerati)
Tony