On Nov 4, 2013, at 14:24, Remco de Boer remcocdeboer@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Shawn,
I'm currently working on the Memento Extension for Mediawiki, as announced
earlier today by Herbert Van de Sompel.
This is very exciting! Coincidentally, at last week's SMWCon (the Semantic MediaWiki conference) in Berlin I gave a presentation to argue that we need some sort of 'time travelling' feature (slides are available at http://slidesha.re/1iIf3F9). One of the other participants also pointed out the Memento protocol.
Are you familiar with Semantic MediaWiki (http://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/) as an extension to MediaWiki? I'm curious what it would take to let SMW play nice together with Memento.
Before announcing the Memento extension to this list we tested it with a locally installed Semantic MediaWiki and all seemed OK. It would be great if someone could test it on a live one with actual real data. We got in touch with the people behind http://neurolex.org/wiki/Main_Page but they are running an older MediaWiki version and are not in a hurry to upgrade because they have a lot of extensions.
From the early days of Memento, we have been very interested in semantic web, linked data applications of the Memento protocol. See, for example: - http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.3661 - illustrates the power of the protocol to do time series analysis across versions of linked data description (in DBpedia) - http://mementoweb.org/depot/native/dbpedia/ - the DBpedia archive that we operate and that is Memento compliant -
Greetings
Herbert
Kind regards,
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