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The Vienna History Wiki – a Collaborative Knowledge Platform for the City of Vienna August 19th, 2015
OpenSym, San Francisco Bernhard Krabina
Introduction
KDZ – Centre for Public Administration Research Open Knowledge – Austrian Chapter Semantic MediaWiki
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The Vienna History Wiki https://www.wien.gv.at/wiki
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Why is it special?
Process digitizing a printed encyclopedia
Governance scholarly wiki
Open Government changes administrative processes
Semantic stores facts inside the wiki
Open Data data can be exported
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Historical Encyclopedia of Vienna
six-volume encyclopedia "Historisches Lexikon Wien" 1994-2004 edited by Felix Czeike
Last volume (6) was an update volume, released 2004
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Wiki ↓
Original→
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Content
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User Accounts and editorial team
External Institutions:
Jewish Museum Vienna
Association for the History of Vienna
Austrian Institute of Historical Research
Centre for Environmental History, Vienna
Austrian Mediathek
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Memorial day index on paper for 2014
online for 2016
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Encyclopedia of street names
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Semantic MediaWiki
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Form based data entry (Semantic Forms)
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„Bennant nach“ = „named after“
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{{#ask:…}} query for pages named after „Sigmund Freud“
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List all pages of Category:Person with Birthyear::1856 and Sex::male
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Data on a timeline
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RDF/JSON export = Open Data!
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Visits (Logfile Analysis)
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Users (Survey)
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User demographics
old, male and for private purposes…
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Challenges/Outlook
legally too restrictive
data not in Vienna‘s OGD catalog yet
2015 Software-Upgrade to MW 1.23.9 and SMW 2.2.2 Bootstrap-Skin: Chameleon New content category: books about Vienna
2016 Dictionary of Viennese German dialect More users from city departments and citizens
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Semantic MediaWiki leaves your MediaWiki installation intact no patching, just a (bunch of) MW extension(s) already existing unstructured content can stay as it is or be transformed
gives you all the tools you need for a collaborative web database entering data and text representing/visualising data and text within the wiki re-use/export data outside the wiki
everything is done through configuration Attributes, Forms, Templates, Filters… are wiki pages Queries, parsing, “programming” via Wikitext www.kdz.or.at 31. Juli 2015 · Seite 22
> 40 different „result formats“ |format=table |format=csv |format=calendar...
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Semantic MediaWiki as co-creation tool RDF/JSON export = Open Data
Open-Source-Software Easy to use Wiki style collaboration
Transparent edit history Form-based data entry Facetted search Querying and displaying data inside the wiki Automatically generated pages Import and export of data www.kdz.or.at
„List all males born in 1856“
Contact
Bernhard Krabina
krabina@kdz.or.at
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@krabina
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