Semantic MediaWiki

Sep 29 2011. Free Software Directory re-launched with Semantic MediaWiki The Free Software Foundation, a pioneering organization best known for creating GNU as well as the GNU General Public License, has since 2002 also run the "Free Software ... [More] Directory", a website listing free and open-source software. Today it re-launched the site as a wiki running Semantic MediaWiki, in order to allow users to directly add to and modify the site's contents, as well as to improve searching. In a press release, the FSF said the change will make the site "a more useful and current resource". You can view the new Free Software Directory here. [Less]

Sep 30 2011. Semantic MediaWiki celebrates its 6th anniversary This day in 2005 the very first version of Semantic MediaWiki (SMW 0.1) was released. What started as an academic project has now evolved into a mature and serious software suite ... [More] enhancing MediaWiki to take advantage of the possibilities provided by the Semantic Web. "Making your wiki more accessible - for humans and machines" was the principal idea of Semantic MediaWiki during these years, which will continue to accompany its further development. Since Semantic MediaWiki 0.1 a lot of features have been added to the software, and just last week Semantic MediaWiki 1.6.2 was released. See the version history for more details. Also, many useful semantic extensions have been been created to provide extra functionality, most notably Semantic Forms, Semantic Result Formats and Halo. Also an active community of both developers and users has established itself around Semantic MediaWiki and is still gaining momentum. [Less]

Sep 23 2011. After three successful days SMWCon Fall 2011 ended More that 40 users, developers and enthusiasts participated at SMWCon Fall 2011 in Berlin. It provided in the context of Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) an insight into Semantic Web ... [More] technologies that empower linked data. Another main topic were the latest developments concerning SMW and related software itself. All of this was supplemented with inspiring examples of how to implement all of this. The slides and documents are already available via the main conference page. Additionally, videos of the conference will be made available on YouTube later on. A big thank you goes to all the people organising, supporting and attending this event. See you next SMWCon. [Less]

Sep 23 2011. After three successful days SMWCon Fall 2011 ended More that 40 users, developers and enthusiasts participated at SWMCon Fall 2011 in Berlin. It provided an insight into Semantic Web technologies that empower linked data in the context ... [More] of Semantic MediaWiki (SMW). Another main topic were the latest developments concerning SMW and related software itself. All of this was supplemented with inspiring examples of how to implement all of this. The slides and documents are already available via the main conference page. Additionally, videos of the conference will be made available on YouTube later on. A big thank you goes to all the people organising, supporting and attending this event. See you next SMWCon. [Less]

Sep 20 2011. Semantic MediaWiki 1.6.2 has been released and is now available for download. This minor release mainly contains bug fixes and some small new features and tweaks. See Installation 1.6.2 for installation details. Further information can be found on the SMW 1.6.2 page.

Yesterday I released version 1.0.3 of the Maps and Semantic Maps MediaWiki extensions. This release re-introduces Google Earth support, this time for Google Maps v3, and enhances the KML/KMZ support for this mapping service as well. Many thanks go to Jon Povey for funding the implementation of these features! Since I didn’t make any release [...]

Aug 20 2011. Semantic MediaWiki 1.6.1 has been released and is now available for download. This minor release mainly contains bug fixes and function tweaks. See Installation 1.6.1 for installation details. Further information can be found on the SMW 1.6.1 page.

Aug 12, 2011. We are happy to announce that you can now register for SMWCon Fall 2011 in Berlin on September 21–23, 2011. Registration is found at http://de.amiando.com/SMWCon_Fall_2011. Read more …

August 10, 2011. The SNPedia-Gene Wiki mashup is the first known case of joining the information of two wikis via RDF and SPARQL using Semantic MediaWiki A paper was published by Benjamin M. Good, Salvatore Loguercio and Andrew I. Su describing how ... [More] two wikis, SNPedia and Gene Wiki were used to integrate and assemble separately collected data into a "meta-wiki" by utilising the abilities of Semantic MediaWiki to handle the Resource Description Framework (RDF) via its standard query language SPARQL. Thus 4,426 distinct gene-disease relationships were captured between the two wikis. Read the full story at bio-ontologies.knowledgeblog.org. [Less]

July 30 2011. The new version of SMW, Semantic MediaWiki 1.6.0, has now been released. In this new major version, SMW has again seen a significant number of internal changes for better extendibility and less bugs. Notable changes are full support of ... [More] synchronization of SMW with external RDF stores, major reorganization concerning datatypes (namespace Type abolished, no custom datatypes, changes to datatypes Number and Record, built in properties for every supported datatype), new built in result format DSV (Delimiter-separated values), improved error reporting for ask queries, improved support for PostgreSQL. Upgrading from earlier versions of SMW is easy but needs some additional steps in certain cases, see Installation 1.6.0 for details. Further information is found on the SMW 1.6.0 page. [Less]