The document describes the Vienna History Wiki, a collaborative knowledge platform about the history of Vienna, Austria. Key points:
- It was created by digitizing a printed 6-volume historical encyclopedia about Vienna from 1994-2004.
- It uses Semantic MediaWiki, which allows storing facts inside wiki pages and exporting data as open data in RDF/JSON format.
- External institutions contribute content and it has over 20,000 pages. Semantic queries can extract people, places, events and relationships from the data.
- Challenges include making more content openly available as open government data and upgrading software. The goal is to expand content and users from city departments and citizens.
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Introduction
KDZ – Centre for Public
Administration Research
Open Knowledge –
Austrian Chapter
Semantic MediaWiki
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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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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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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
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> 40 different „result formats“
|format=table |format=csv |format=calendar...
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Semantic MediaWiki
as co-creation tool
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
„List all males
born in 1856“
RDF/JSON
export = Open Data