Semantic MediaWiki as Co-Creation Tool as illustrated by the Vienna History Wiki

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Semantic MediaWiki as
Co-Creaton Tool
as illustrated by the Vienna History Wiki
December 1st, 2015
2nd DHA Conference - dha2015
Bernhard Krabina

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Introduction
 KDZ – Centre for Public
Administration Research
 Open Knowledge –
Austrian Chapter
 Semantic MediaWiki
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Wikipedia – Wikimedia – Mediawiki
Encyclopedia – Operator – Software
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Wikis and Data in 2015
 extract structured information from
Wikipedia and make this information
available on the Web
 free knowledge base that can be
read and edited by humans and
machines alike… central storage for
the data that may be accessed by
the client Wikis
 lets you store and query data within
the wiki's pages. Turns a wiki into a
powerful and flexible knowledge
management system.
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The Vienna History Wiki
https://www.wien.gv.at/wiki

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Why is it special?
 Process
 digitizing a printed encyclopedia
 Governance
 scholarly wiki
 Open Government
 changes administrative processes
 Semantic
 stores facts inside the wiki
 Open Data
 data can be exported
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Historical Encyclopedia of Vienna
 six-volume encyclopedia "Historisches Lexikon
Wien" 1994-2004 edited by Felix Czeike
 Last volume (6)
was an update
volume, released
2004
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Wiki ↓ Original→
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Content
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User Accounts and editorial team
External Institutions:
 Jewish Museum Vienna
 Association for the History of Vienna
 Austrian Institute of Historical Research
 Centre for Environmental History, Vienna
 Austrian Mediathek
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Memorial day index
on paper for 2014 online for 2016
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Semantic MediaWiki
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Form based data entry
(Semantic Forms)
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„Bennant nach“ =
„named after“
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{{#ask:…}} query for pages named
after „Sigmund Freud“
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List all pages of Category:Person
with Birthyear::1856 and
Sex::male

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Data on a timeline
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File/Image management
 Pages for every upload
 Text/Links can be added
 Versions of Files
 Checksums with
warnings if you re-upload
an already exising file
 Pages that use the files
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Image Annotation
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Widgets
 Embedding
Videos, Soundfiles
 Wien.at
 Mediathek.at
 Embedding from
services/portals
 YouTube, Vimeo,
Slidehare, Google
Street View, Twitter,
Soundcloud, DISQUS,
…
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Maps
 das
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Responsive Skin
(Twitter Bootstrap)
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> 40 different „result formats“
|format=table |format=csv |format=calendar...
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RDF/JSON export
= Open Data!
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Semantic MediaWiki
 leaves your MediaWiki installation intact
 no patching, just a (bunch of) MW extension(s)
 already existing unstructured content can stay as it is or be
transformed
 gives you all the tools you need for a
collaborative web database
 entering data and text
 representing/visualising data and text within the wiki
 re-use/export data outside the wiki
 everything is done through configuration
 Attributes, Forms, Templates, Filters… are wiki pages
 Queries, parsing, “programming” via Wikitext
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Semantic MediaWiki
can be open or closed…
 Access
 Closed, on an internal server
 Open, on the Internet
 Viewing
 Closed, only logged-in users can view
 Open, everybody can view
 Editing
 Closed, only logged-in users can edit
 Open, users can create accounts to edit
 Administrating
 Who are users with special rights?
 Marking articles as approved, deleting…
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Semantic MediaWiki
as co-creation tool
 Open-Source-Software
 Easy to use
 Wiki style collaboration
 Transparent edit history
 Form-based data entry
 Facetted search
 Querying and displaying data
inside the wiki
 Automatically generated pages
 Import and export of data
„List all males
born in 1856“
RDF/JSON
export = Open Data

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Contact
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Bernhard Krabina
 krabina@kdz.or.at
 www.kdz.or.at
 @krabina