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Comment Semantic MediaWiki and SMW+ (Score 1) 121

You may want to check the Semantic MediaWiki (semantic-mediawiki.org) or SMW+ (wiki.ontoprise.de).

Both are built on top of MediaWiki (which powers Wikipedia) so you can tap the very rich pools of extensions (numbering in the hundreds).

SMW+ is actually built on top of SMW, and it focuses on increasing usability and it preinstall pre-configured extensions out of the box to make it easier to deploy.

With SMW/SMW+, you can put in semantic annotations for an article describing just about anything you want to assert about the article. One assertion you can make is a Wikipedia link. It even has the smarts to know that the assertion/property is a URL and it will put in the necessary bits to make it clickable.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg, you can do some other amaaaazzziiing stuff with the semantic smarts of SMW/SMW+. To get a better sense of what SMW is, you may want to check out - http://simia.net/download/SemTech2009.ppt

Full disclosure - I help out with the SMW project :)

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