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If you entered an actor, you should see them below, they will also be present on other queries:
{{Person
 
|Image=Arashi_Daiko.jpg
{{ #ask: [[born::+]]
|Home page=http://www.arashidaiko.org/home/home.htm
|?born
|Location=Montréal
|?died
|Arts=Music
|?is from
|Type=Group
|?died in
|?died of
}}
}}
 
Founded in 1983, Arashi Daiko is a Japanese percussion performance group based in Montreal and comprised of members from different communities. With a repertoire of both traditional and original pieces, Arashi Daiko strives to spread Japanese culture to the greater community through music. The group and its members also believe in sharing the values of consideration, appreciation and respect through their performance and in the everyday lives of the members.
== Summary ==
 
In these pages, you've seen how to build on the existing, widely available, hypertext web by adding re-usable data. Going from the flexibility of wikis, we've encoded re-usable information that can be used for queries and views. Form front ends can simplify entering field data.
 
What hasn't been covered is re-using data across sites. Semantic Mediawiki extensions allow auto completion based on ontologies from other sites. So your site about actors could query a site about locations or causes of death in autocomplete fields. Semantic Mediawiki can also query and include data from external data sources such as comma separated files and databases (with login and password information).
 
While Semantic Mediawiki is just one approach to SemWeb, it practically builds on the underlying principals of wikis and the most popular open source Wiki software that has many extensions and supporters and users, including Wikipedia. When Wikipedia flips a switch, all its data will become semantic (evidenced today in sites like [http://dbpedia.org DBPedia]) and the culture will evolve to expect more and more refined and re-usable data.
 
Today we have a grab bag of standard Web components. Semantic Wikis should '''not''' be thought of as another element. The list of blogs, CMSs, calendars, etc, etc can all be rolled up into a semantic wiki, with re-use of information throughout - add a query and view into your blog posting, add events to any document.
 
Of course, other systems have and are gaining semantic features. But standard sites today are 'admin' managed. 'Users' on wiki sites also expect to participate more. They can create or augment data types and add their own views. They can use their own front ends to work with data. In fact, browsers tomorrow are expected to be more interactive and rely on server processing less - a server can just provide raw data, the application can be in the browser.
 
This yields other benefits. Today many sites don't pay much attention to accessibility - use of sites by people with reduced vision, for example. On a well designed site with good structure and cues, a person with disabilities can be greatly enabled, perhaps more so than people who just read a page from top to bottom. But on poorly designed sites, it can become extremely tedious or impossible to access data.
 
Well structured data using formats like RDF can allow alternative front ends for any use to be easily created, regardless of the ability of the source agency. A culture can be enabled with authentic transparency and participation.
 
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