Semantic Wiki Guide: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
|||
| Line 9: | Line 9: | ||
As a brief summary of how different parts of the wiki are split across different elements: | As a brief summary of how different parts of the wiki are split across different elements: | ||
* '''[[Special:Properties|Properties]]''' - Define the "meaning" of links between pages. Each requires a data type (Most commonly another Page, but also text, URLs, dates, and so on), and can be linked to an external vocabulary like schema.org | * '''[[Special:Properties|Properties]]''' - Define the "meaning" of links between pages or external resources. Each requires a data type (Most commonly another Page, but also text, URLs, dates, and so on), and can be linked to an external vocabulary like schema.org | ||
* '''[[Special:Templates|Templates]]''' - Group together multiple properties, and define how they are displayed on a page. | * '''[[Special:Templates|Templates]]''' - Group together multiple properties, and define how they are displayed on a page. | ||
* '''[[Special:Forms|Forms]]''' - Provide an interface for creating/editing pages by filling the values in (potentially multiple) Templates. | * '''[[Special:Forms|Forms]]''' - Provide an interface for creating/editing pages by filling the values in (potentially multiple) Templates. | ||
| Line 15: | Line 15: | ||
Typically one would define these from "bottom to top" - defining properties, then templates, and so on, but [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Page_Schemas Page Schemas] provides an interface that makes it much easier for doing it "top to bottom" by defining a schema that then can be used to generate the relevant forms, templates, and properties. This order gets messier with longer-lived wikis that then reuse properties and templates across categories, but we'll start with a simplified example of creating [[:Category:Resource]] | Typically one would define these from "bottom to top" - defining properties, then templates, and so on, but [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Page_Schemas Page Schemas] provides an interface that makes it much easier for doing it "top to bottom" by defining a schema that then can be used to generate the relevant forms, templates, and properties. This order gets messier with longer-lived wikis that then reuse properties and templates across categories, but we'll start with a simplified example of creating [[:Category:Resource]] | ||
== Properties == | == Properties == | ||
Revision as of 03:18, 25 October 2022
This wiki runs Semantic Mediawiki - an extension that lets you declare triplet links with the current page as the subject, a Property which serves as the predicate, and an object with a type specified by the property.
Semantic mediawiki lets you declare semantic/triplet links within text with a minor extension to wikilinks like [[Property Name::Object]] with a :: delimiter.
To combine fluid semantic properties with more structured information, we additionally make use of Templates and Forms using the Page Forms and Page Schemas extensions.
Component Summary
As a brief summary of how different parts of the wiki are split across different elements:
- Properties - Define the "meaning" of links between pages or external resources. Each requires a data type (Most commonly another Page, but also text, URLs, dates, and so on), and can be linked to an external vocabulary like schema.org
- Templates - Group together multiple properties, and define how they are displayed on a page.
- Forms - Provide an interface for creating/editing pages by filling the values in (potentially multiple) Templates.
- Categories - Define schemas for categories of objects on the wiki that group together a (single) form, template(s), and schemas.
Typically one would define these from "bottom to top" - defining properties, then templates, and so on, but Page Schemas provides an interface that makes it much easier for doing it "top to bottom" by defining a schema that then can be used to generate the relevant forms, templates, and properties. This order gets messier with longer-lived wikis that then reuse properties and templates across categories, but we'll start with a simplified example of creating Category:Resource
Properties
- Types
- External Schema Integration
Templates
References
- SMW Data Types: https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:List_of_datatypes