[dundee] BBC's "Digital Revolution" Documentary Series

[gordon dunlop]

2009/7/15 Dan Bolser <dan.bolser at gmail.com>

> 1) I know a lot of people there have ongoing projects that they would
> like to promote.
> 2) SMW is an open source project aimed at bringing semantic web
> technology 'to the masses'.
> 3) I think SMW is literally one of the most exciting projects on earth*.
>


> I don't know much about SMW but at a glance it looks really interesting, I
> will have a lot of further reading to do once I've finished messing about
> with the TayLUG web site.
>
>
> Is anyone interested in trying to contribute to the BBC documentary?
> Is anyone interested in helping to develop this site into a more
> useful resource (demonstrating the use of Semantic annotation)? What
> do you think should be the next step?
>

 It is good to see that the BBC is open to this type of collaboration where
people can get involved and express their opinions.

>
> I suggested to contact some of the SMW and SMW extension developers to
> provide an overview of the application, but it would be great to get
> additional involvement from anyone who is interested.
>
>
> If you would like to learn more about SMW, you should see (at least):
>
> * http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki
> * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms
> * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Drilldown
> * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Result_Formats
> * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Halo_Extension
>
>
> And:
>
> * http://www.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page
> * http://smw.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page
>
>   Thanks for the posting of these links, I will have a look at these
extensions at a later date.

 Gordon



>
> All the best,
> Dan.
>
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