SMWConTalk2015-05

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smartMediaWiki

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Wolfgang Fahl info@bitplan.com

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smartMediaWiki

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SMW CON Spring 2015

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⌘⌘ smartMediaWiki

see Talk page on SMW wiki

• SMW has lots of features.
• SMW is complicated.
• SMW can be very useful.

smartMediaWiki is an approach to get extended results from the use of SMW. The goals are:

• simplicity
• staying on the problem side
• allowing to specify the problem in a way that SMW results can be derived "right there in the wiki".

⌘⌘ What is smartMediaWiki?

smartMediaWiki is a Powertool that is so powerful
- it will make your lights go out :-)

⌘⌘ Agenda

• Why is a smart approach to using SMW necessary?
• What is smartMediaWiki?
• What can I do with it?
• How does it work?

⌘⌘ Why smartMediaWiki?

• MediaWiki and SMW have a strong developer focus
• There are lots of options
• There is a steep learning curve
• There might be a lot of effort and work for getting things done

⌘⌘ Problem versus Solution

The key success factor is mapping

Real Life Problems
to

Technical Solutions

⌘⌘ Real Life Problems solved with smartMediaWiki

• Digitizing Documents
• Trainings: Curriculum, Quizcards, Pre-Training Interview
• CRM Integration
• Project Documentation and Collaboration e.g. Problem/Diagnosis/Therapy
• Effort Tracking for Projects
• Garbage-Bin Calendar reminder
• ...

⌘⌘ Technical issues solved with smartMediaWiki

• Import of Office Documents
• CRM Integration
• Lotus Notes import
• adding template Engines to SMW
• adding Java Automation Support to SMW
• Mail Integration
• Automatic OCR + Import for Scanned Documents

⌘⌘ Digitizing Documents

see http://www.bitmypaper.com
Scanned Documents in a Wiki

⌘⌘ Import of Office Documents

Office WikiTask

⌘⌘ Training

How to keep a multilanguage training material in sync with a Syllabus and the corresponding Quizcards?

• TrainingChapters
• Check of Translation
• Deltacomments
• Printed Quizcard
• Quizcard
• Pre-Training Interview

⌘⌘ CRM integration

SMWCon

ChristmasCard

⌘⌘ Lotus Notes import

see Imported Lotus Notes Article from 2000

⌘⌘ Project Documentation and Collaboration

Effort Tracking for Projects

⌘⌘ smartMediaWiki - inspirations

• Yaron Koren and Anit Garg PageSchemas extension
• Pierre Racine - Lightning Talk about Metaproperties SMWCON 2013
• WikiSon - Wiki Simple Object Notation
• SiDIF - Simple Data Interchange Format
• WikiTasks - Java based Template engine

⌘⌘ WikiSon

WikiSon = Wiki Simple Object Notation

Books

{{  Book  |  Lord of the Rings  |  0261102389  }}

is a valid WikiSon sample for the Three Book Set Edition of the Book with the title "Lord of the Rings" by John R. R. Tolkien which happens to have the ISBN-10 number 0261102389.

⌘⌘ WikiSon - just a Template?

Yes!

No - it has got a much nicer name and WikiSon Notation is simpler to remember! You started with the Topic {{Book If your parameters only contain id information

• human readable like a book title
• or computer readable like an ISDN number

then you just specified a link

If your parameters contain semantic content than you just specified a Wiki Object in WikiSon.

⌘⌘ SiDIF

Simple Data Interchange Format (SiDIF)

helps understanding the Triple concept and can actually be used for quite a few real-life problems.

⌘⌘ WikiTask

WikiTask Tutorial for learning how to play with Wiki tasks

⌘⌘ Royal FamilyTree revisited

(c) Washington Post
FamilyTree

⌘⌘ Questions/Discussion