Wikify Your Metadata
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.