[Noisebridge-discuss] FW: [hackerspaces] Interconnecting Semantic Media Wikis (HSF round-table topic)

Mitch Altman maltman23 at hotmail.com
Wed Jul 1 20:03:45 UTC 2009


Is this something anyone at NB is interested in?  (It's from the Hackerspaces.org discuss list.)

 

 

Mitch.

 

 


 

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> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:05:23 +0200
> From: zoombat at runbox.com
> To: discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org
> Subject: [hackerspaces] Interconnecting Semantic Media Wikis (HSF round-table topic)
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> as was discussed in Paris it would be interesting to interconnect our
> wikis to make information sharing simple while not requiring a
> centralized system.
> 
> Semantic Media Wiki (SMW) allows just that. Another wiki can either send
> a request for [CSV, JSON, RDF] data for a specific SWM query and use it
> on a page using the External Data extension
> (http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:MediaWiki_extensions#External_Data)
> or alternatively the source wiki could simply provide a CSV of its
> semantic data to be imported by another wiki on a regular basis.
> 
> I suppose an appropriate place for this would be hackerspaces.org. I can
> think of about 5 steps to get this working:
> 
> 1) decide on which content should be shared through this method (I
> believe events and projects would be sufficient)
> 
> 2) establish a standard set of Categories, Subcategories and
> SubSubCategories across hackerspace wikis, write down this standard
> somewhere
> 
> 3) Implement SMW on all wikis that want to participate
> 
> 4) decide on one of two modes of operation (direct queries are realtime,
> but will produce higher bandwidth requirements and significant
> connection overhead for each query)
> 
> 5) decide on a location for displaying this information (hackerspaces.org ?)
> 
> Notes:
> 2) (sub)subcategories: during the round-table someone mentioned that
> they would be interested in having digests in a given field because they
> feel overwhelmed in filtering all the cruft that does not interest them
> from project lists, something like: Category:Projects,
> Subcategory:Hardware, SubSubCategory:Embedded... This way the "PROJECTS
> FROM ALL HACKERSPACES" page can be organized into sections.
> 
> I'm not sure whether SMW objects can be assigned multiple tags from the
> same group at once (ie two subcategories for instance) Another question
> is whether to display such overlapping projects multiple times on the
> page, once for each query they fit.
> 
> -Bartek
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