Semantic MediaWiki

Collaborative Working

Josef Noll

Outline

  • Structured versus unstructured data
  • Mediawiki
    • Wikpedia: Categories
    • Semantic Mediawiki: Forms, relations
  • Semantic
    • why, what
    • Topic Maps versus Semantics
  • Goal of collaborative working
    • paper in bookshelf , word and powerpoint
    • just the information you want
    • online for "day-to-day" work
  • UNIK as an information hub
    • for students, for the general public, for researchers
  • Challenges
  • Summary

Structured versus unstructured data

notes on a whiteboard
  • typical example of unstructured data
  • only position provides you a structure
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MediaWiki and Wikipedia

All context is online available
  • Links included to jump between topics
    • Reasonably easy to write a page with hyperlinks
  • Online collaboration (everybody)
  • Structure through Categories
Challenges
  • static pages
  • sorting only through Categories

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Semantic MediaWiki

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Note:

Semantic MediaWiki

  • Build as an extension to MediaWiki
    • same syntax, writing…
    • Links included to jump between topics
    • Online collaboration (everybody)
  • Query (search) and dynamic pages
  • Hierachy
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Basics of Semantics

  • Hierachy
    • Classes
    • relations
  • Tripple store
    • UNIK - has - Education
    • Education - consists of - Courses
    • Courses - are composed by - Lectures
and how it will end: Ordering of a Pizza in the future: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNJl9EEcsoE&feature=related

Further reading: Basics_of_Semantics as part of UNIK4710

Goal of collaborative working

  • paper in bookshelf
  • word and powerpoint
  • just the information you want
  • online for "day-to-day" work

The six biggest Web Sites are all user generated: Google, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo, Baidu, Wikipedia

also: Communities in education, e.g. UNIK4710MobileSemantics

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UNIK as information hub

  • for students
  • for the general public
  • for researchers
Specific information on

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Demo - Functionality

Challenges - Advances

Advantages
  • dynamic pages, created by «ask»
  • always updated
  • working tool
  • relations between topics
  • presentation and notes combined
  • Math:
Disadvantages
  • Think structured
  • Wiki language
  • first version takes longer times
  • redraw pictures
  • Presentations never look excellent (math, figures)

Summary

  • The world is moving towards «user generated content»
  • Structure through
    • search (internal semantics)
    • Semantics (hierachies, Tripples)
  • UNIK and UNIKUM
    • hubs for networking
    • online working modus
    • sharing, cooperation
  • needs an initial effort
    • structured thinking
    • wiki «language»