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network of collaborators (humans and bots), developed over years of
growing demands.
In an enterprise context, wikis need to provide more than a collaborative
equivalent of a word processor. The content they hold has to be accessible
both to individuals and other systems, through queries in addition to
search. What we need is practical knowledge sharing; make it easy for
people to share what they know, integrate with other sources and
automate when possible. In our experience, Semantic MediaWiki
provides a good balance of tools to that end.
16.3 Semantic MediaWiki
The Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development,
L.L.C. is exploring the use of Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) as a data
integration tool with applications to guiding queries in a linked data
framework for translational research, simplifying enterprise search and
improving knowledge sharing in a decentralised organisation. Semantic
MediaWiki was initially released in 2005 as an extension to MediaWiki
designed to add semantic annotations to wiki text, in effect turning wikis
into collaborative databases. MediaWiki itself enjoys some popularity in
life sciences. It is used in many biowikis and more notably, in Wikipedia
[4, 5, 14]. The Semantic MediaWiki extension is now at the core of a
fl urry of other extensions, developed by an active community of
developers and used by hundreds of sites [6].
16.3.1 Flexibility
At the confl uence of R&D and IT, change is unavoidable. Capturing and
understanding concepts involved in a business is a moving target.
Flexibility is assured by MediaWiki core functionalities:
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complete edit history on any page;
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redirects (renaming pages without breaking links);
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a differentiation between actual and wanted pages (and their reports
in special pages);
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a vast library of free extensions;
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an advanced system of templates and parser functions;
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a background jobs queue for automated, mass updates.
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