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Semantic MediaWiki as Linked Open Data Platform
Thursday October 10, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
Zoom
Semantic MediaWiki is a very flexible platform for providing linked open data, collaborativley editing data and interlinking data from other sources including Wikidata.

The talk will demonstrate features of Semantic MediaWiki and how to use them in order to set it up as a linked data platform. Some examples from the Vienna History Wiki and other use cases will be shown. See also Krabina, 2023: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2022.100771
Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is an open-source knowledge management solution based on MediaWiki, the software the powers Wikipedia, but is also used in more than 60.000 third-party wikis. With SMW, MediaWiki can be turned into a Linked Open Data Platform. I will demonstrate what elements are needed for a linked open data platform and how this can be achieved with SMW. I will also highlight the differences to Wikibase (the MediaWiki extension that powers Wikidata). Wikibase is a great platform, but so is SMW, and in the talk I will highlight advantages and disadvantages of using either or the approaches.

I will provide examples from GLAM Wikis such as the Vienna History Wiki or the FINA and SILVER wikis, which are about scholarly correspondence in the 16-18th century and ancient silver coins covering aspects of interlinking data between a GLAM wiki and Wikidata or other vocabularies such as Nomisma and Schema.org.
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Bernhard Krabina

Managing Partner, Knowledge Management Associates
Thursday October 10, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
Zoom
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