title: smartMediaWiki
author: Wolfgang Fahl info@bitplan.com
footer: smartMediaWiki
subfooter: 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

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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?

⌘⌘ CRM integration

SMWCon

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⌘⌘ 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

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