On 10/10/12 2:41 PM, John F Sowa wrote:
> On 10/10/2012 7:54 AM, Peter Yim wrote:
>> YES! ... Thank you for relaying this very exciting news, Markus.
> Yes, indeed. Note the opening two sentences from the announcement:
>
>
>http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/08/google-microsoft-facebook-and-others-launch-web-platform-docs-a-web-standards-documentation-site/
>> A number of leading browser vendors and other tech companies,
>> including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Adobe, Facebook, HP, Nokia,
>> Mozilla, Opera and the W3C, just announced the launch of the
>> Web Platform Docs project at WebPlatform.org. The project aims
>> to create “a new, authoritative open web standards documentation site”
> Note that the W3C is mentioned, but only after the list of vendors.
> The video on that page includes an endorsement by Tim Berners-Lee,
> but the groups with money are listed first. That is a clue to the
> future developments.
>
> The software foundation is Media Wiki (developed by and for Wikipedia)
> with the extensions for Semantic Media Wiki plus PHP and MySQL:
>
> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Special:Version
>
> The semantics is based on "templates", not on logic:
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms
>
> For a brief summary, see the 2-page Quick Reference Guide:
>
> http://postable.net/smwqr/smw-quick-reference.pdf
>
> Following are the property types:
>
> Page (default), String, Text, Code, Number, Date, Boolean, URL,
> Email, Telephone number, Temperature, Geographical coordinates
>
> Following is a sample definition on a page called "United States":
>
> {{#set_internal:Is president of|Has name=James Madison
> |Has start year=1801|Has end year=1809|Has vice
> president#list=George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry}}
>
> Note that their basic data structure is a typed list (AKA N-tuple)
> with the option of nested lists.
>
> This doesn't mean that the SemWeb is dead. But it does mean that
> the 2-page quick reference for the Semantic Media Wiki is a better
> clue to the future of the SemWeb than any of the layer cakes.
>
> The absence of any mention of logic or ontology in their announcement
> means that the SMW developers don't see a need for it -- yet. But
> their use of MySQL, N-tuples, and typed N-tuples indicates that a
> logic and ontology that can support them would be highly desirable.
>
> John Sowa
>
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1. http://bit.ly/UnOpac -- LInkedWiki Demos (basically MediaWiki +
Semantic MediaWiki + LinkedWiki extensions deployed via Virtuoso
instance hosting PHP i.e., no LAMP stack) which show pre Web DBMS
publishing enhanced via use of SPARQL instead of SQL ; Ignore the
URIBurner.com demos as that instance is under maintenance, the DBpedia
demos are fine . (03)
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