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Wordpress is like Barbie's Kitchen. You get a kit that lets you do what it shows on the box... blogs, RSS feeds, blog management, with extensions you can create maps, events, and so on. | Wordpress is like Barbie's Kitchen. You get a kit that lets you do what it shows on the box... blogs, RSS feeds, blog management, with extensions you can create maps, events, and so on. | ||
[http://www.semantic-mediawiki.org Semantic Mediawiki] (SMW) is like | [http://www.semantic-mediawiki.org Semantic Mediawiki] (SMW) is like Lego blocks. You can combine the basic blocks to make just about any shape, with extensions you can create your own content types, special views and functions. | ||
Wordpress is easier to use (except when it comes to quick hypertext editing, where wikis, after a quick introduction, rule). But with SMW, you can recreate most typical functions, and also recombine pieces. You can take the pieces of a "table" (a map location embedded in a page) and make a mosaic (a collection of map locations about a topic). The SMW approach is less rounded, but you can re-use the pieces and constantly build on your knowledge. | Wordpress is easier to use (except when it comes to quick hypertext editing, where wikis, after a quick introduction, rule). But with SMW, you can recreate most typical functions, and also recombine pieces. You can take the pieces of a "table" (a map location embedded in a page) and make a mosaic (a collection of map locations about a topic). The SMW approach is less rounded, but you can re-use the pieces and constantly build on your knowledge. | ||
This is a characteristic of semantic sites. Each piece of content is well defined and re-usable. | This is a characteristic of semantic sites. Each piece of content is well defined and re-usable. Also like Lego blocks, the design is obvious, transparent and open (in SMW, using [[Special:Version]] and change histories). | ||
Wordpress supports some semantic features now, but I prefer the " | Wordpress supports some semantic features now, but I prefer the "Lego" approach, where people can more easily create different components, without resorting to a complex and difficult to maintain low level language. | ||
There is more and more re-usable content and components on the Web; [http://simile.mit.edu MIT's SIMILE project] was created to make it easy to embed interactive views across sites and is supported by SMW and Wordpress, Microformats and RDFa make it possible to aggregate content in one place, whether it's restaurant reviews or departmental budgets. | There is more and more re-usable content and components on the Web; [http://simile.mit.edu MIT's SIMILE project] was created to make it easy to embed interactive views across sites and is supported by SMW and Wordpress, Microformats and RDFa make it possible to aggregate content in one place, whether it's restaurant reviews or departmental budgets. | ||