If you happen to be attending Enterprise DataWorld conference this March then I’d recommend attending this session by John Biderman and Cameron McLean. John and Cam are sure to tell an interesting tale of how they’ve wrangled Semantic MediaWiki into harvesting a world of MetaData from one of their legacy relational databases and made it organized, accessible, annotatable, and well… in a word wikified.
” We were given an imperative from our business leaders to provide a friendlier and more collaborative front end on our metadata…
… This in turn led us to MediaWiki and the rich and diverse array of add-ons developed by the Open Source community, particularly its semantic extensions.”
I was happy to play a small part in this project last summer. I suppose I was more of kibitzer than anything else, but It was enjoyable to solve a few problems for the team as well as get an inside look into this very interesting project.
Greg Tutunjian | 25-Jan-10 at 9:15 am | Permalink
Mike made a significant difference on our project. John and Cam do have a great story to tell, and it’s a story that led to a successful deployment of a tool in daily use.
Brand Niemann | 05-Feb-10 at 8:09 am | Permalink
Yes, and there are other Wikis that do this as well and get you to RDF and LOD.
Brand Niemann | 06-Feb-10 at 9:35 am | Permalink
Now I remember your excellent presentation at the 2008 Semantic Technology Conference that I featured in my Wilshire Conferences Pilot Knowledgebase at http://wilshireconferences.wik.is/!
Great blog, thanks!