hebig.org/blog

Wikipedia is the world's largest collaboratively edited source of encyclopaedic knowledge. But in spite of its utility, its contents are barely machine-interpretable. Structural knowledge, e.g. about how concepts are interrelated, can neither be formally stated norautomatically processed. Also the wealth of numerical data is only available as plain text and thus can not be processed by its actual meaning. We provide an extension to be integrated in Wikipedia, that allows to type links between articles and to specify typed data inside the articles in an easy-to-use manner. Enabling even casual users to participate in the creation of an open semantic knowledge base, Wikipedia has the chance to become a hitherto unknown resource of semantic statements regarding size, scope, openness, and internationalisation.

Max Völkel, Markus Krötzsch, Denny Vrandecic, Heiko Haller: Semantic Wikipedia →

RELATED ON THE INTERWEB
Semantic MediaWiki website

RELATED ON THIS BLOG
2005-10-02 Semantic MediaWiki
2005-12-07 Semantic Wiki Reading List
2006-02-14 Wiki-related workshops and events 2006