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[tools-yak@collab] Re: auto-linking Wiki based on an ontology

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From: Eugene Eric Kim <eekim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 20:03:44 -0700
Message-id: <20040809030344.GI8308@douge.blueoxen.net>
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 11:03:08PM +0100, Murray Altheim wrote:    (01)

> I've also been thinking about this kind of thing. My approach was
> to consider that one of the problems with wikis is that any given
> page is not really about *one* subject (i.e., the title) but about
> potentially many different subjects. It occurs to me to use the
> existing Dublin Core DC.subject approach to embed <meta> keyword
> content within the wiki pages, then have a harvester build up the
> wiki index from that, not simply from the page titles. This would
> work pretty well and be easily brought into a Topic Map navigator.
> My only problem in implementing such a beast is that I'm already
> busy with an entirely different project. The two projects could
> meet in the middle, but I don't have the time to begin hacking a
> wiki tool right now...    (02)

How would you propose the subject tags be authored?  As additional
text fields in the Wiki pages?  And would subjects correspond to other
Wiki pages?    (03)

If we can come up with a reasonable spec that makes sense to both of
us, then we can hack this functionality into PurpleWiki for viewing
from Ceryle.    (04)

-Eugene    (05)

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