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[edit] Semantic MediaWiki

I'm interested in the project since w:Cyc hasn't turned into either Wintermute or Neuromancer from w:William Gibson (author).

I installed Cygwin, the XAMPPLite bundle, eclipse, PHP/eclipse, MediaWiki, and SeMediaWiki (about 3M lines of code for free!!!) and started hacking on simple things like Special page improvements and additional datatypes.

I implemented additional datatypes in SMW 0.4 and 0.5, and custom unit handling thanks to Markus Krötzsch's excellent work and insights. I continue development work towards a glorious dream of adding semantics to Wikipedia. See my old thoughts on type handling.

I put my personal properties (and a bunch of tests) on my user page on Ontoworld SMW server.

[edit] Related Resumé

I've written technical documentation, I've created Software Development Kits, and have been a Web site engineer (UNIX, perl, ColdFusion, etc.) for 7 years.

I built a corporate search system using Verity that used HTML meta tags for better filtering and summary presentation, and watched it founder because the metadata grows stale and unusable (users can't even get the <title> tag right, let alone a KEYWORDS value!), so Google's brute force page ranking appears to do a better job. Nevertheless, call me an optimist because I never metadata I didn't like.

I've developed "knowledge bases" in Lotus Notes, Perl, ColdFusion, and Kanisa. But strip away the big-dollar words like "taxonomy" and these were all just structured documents with searchable organization. I've integrated Web site search using Verity, Atomz, and Google.

I read the O'Reilly RDF book to help me sleep :-)