Tools: Semantic Media Wiki
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History of the wiki
The wiki was migrated in April 2015 from a collection of separate wikis; historically the wiki was set up with relatively unstructured data from one wiki site per volume of depositions (witness statements) and several further wikis for cross volume analysis. An importer took the data from each wiki and converted to structured data on a single wiki, with the analysis wikis moved to namespaced pages.
Structure of the wiki
The MarineLives wiki is built on a PHP-based stack:
- Media Wiki
- Semantic MediaWiki extension to allow storage and querying of data across pages
- Semantic Forms extension to allow editing of pages as structured data
- Custom extensions for folio navigation, basic transcription, and improved behaviour to match transcription expectations.
Examples of semantically searchable form based data
Semantic biographies
Semantic occupations
Semantic parishes
Wiki scope
Number of wiki pages 26,613
Number of pages in content namespaces 12,757
Number of uploaded files 12,167
Number of wiki edits 106,510
Number of registered contributors with edit privileges 136
Semantic Media Wiki API
For an example of Ask API generated data output for further digital processing see image.
