Sinapsi: a semantic WordPress
We are thinking about Sinapsi, a social/semantic evolution of WordPress platform.
Please send us your suggestions.
Features
- multidimensional (faceted) classification interface that fully adopt categories potentialities, as in facetmap demo;
- dynamic admin interface based on Xforms;
- full support of Microformats;
- license selector for each post and page and metadata;
- detailed semantic description of authors (persons, individuals), based on Microformats hcard and hresume, published on personal pages with curriculums;
- detailed semantic description of works (resources), and author’s portfolios;
- detailed semantic description of groups (associations, companies, teams etc.);
- detailed semantic description of person<->group relationships, that integrates actual xfn
- event semantic description based on the next new version of iCal and event calendar based on Microformats hcal;
- multiple languages plugin that affects the whole interface (header, footer, pages, templates, categories, calendar etc.);
- language markup based on Iso standard;
- different external and internal links management, like Wikipedia and Plone (i.e.
<a href="http://w3.org">W3C</a>and[p=9]); - general social digging page template, for all posts;
- category related social digging page template, for specific category/ies;
- integrated facetag support;
- integrated geolocation support;
- dynamic post quotation (total or partial, <q> or <blockquote>) with xhtml code includes and Ajax;
August/08/2007 at %1:%Aug %p
Great idea! Start with making a simple plugin. Make as much use of existing wordpress functionality as possible.
A first good step would be making use of WordPress custom fields. Make some markup to enter attributes and relations directly into text. These attributes are then stored as custom values and can also be viewed, changed, made as such.
Display a rdf box below each post, using the attributes and relations defined within the post. Also all standard wordpress information (author date etc.) can be used in this rdf.
A second step could be making an interface for these custom value relations and attributes that resides in the edit-post page. This interface would be more informative and easier to understand than the (coded) custom value pairs.
A third step could be implementing a way of listing posts using attributes and relations (queries) and a way of searching using these semantics.
In the meanwhile some of the smaller things mentioned above could be implemented, some of them exist already and could be copied from other plugins (geolocation->wikimap, locallinks->wordpress wiki).
Take a good look at the Semantic MediaWiki extension and the forms extension that works together with it, they rock!
http://wiki.ontoworld.org/index.php/Semantic_MediaWiki
http://discoursedb.org/SemanticForms/