Some slides showing some BioWikis developed using Semantic MediaWiki.

1. Some wikis I have known

2. Some wikis I have known Arguing the case for using 'wiki-style' technology to store structured data by demoing a few of the 'data' wikis that I've created or developed, with an emphasis on wikis for biological data, the so called BioWikis.

3. My world view...

4. I WIKI

5. Disclaimer When I say, "I'm a wiki person" I don't mean to imply that I think wiki is a specific tool that has strengths or weaknesses when compared to another tool, rather I mean that wiki is the realisation of a different philosophy of data curation that I support.

8. ...

9. Wikis!

10. Wikis!

12. using structured data for each tool

13. collected via forms to help enforce structure.

14. Provides data driven navigation.

24. Boils down to modelling GFF.

25. Can also model the whole registry...

29. Client queries the server for data.

30. Server uses the 'wiki adaptor' to query the wiki.

31. Wiki returns the queried data.

32. Data formatted as DAS.

33. Returned to the client. DAS Server Wiki adaptor Query API DAS Client DAS Wiki Query API

34. DAS Server Wiki adaptor Query API DAS Client DAS Wiki Query API

38. ~50K wiki pages

42. Git...

43. Git...

44. BioGit

45. The End

46. The End ?