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2. ibid ibid 21 2 1 1 2 2 Templates Templates are another tool used to organize Wikipedia A template inserts pre defined content into the text of more than one page Templates perform many functions within Wikipedia but one main function that the templates serve is that of an editorial tool Maintenance Tags When reviewing an article a user can place a special type of template known as a maintenance tag at the top of the page alerting other users to something on the page that needs attention Maintenance tags range from style concerns to reference concerns and even concerns about the article not fitting into the five pillars of Wikipedia The image below is an example of a reference maintenance tag This is displayed at the top of an article and it lets the users know that there is an issue with the references on the marked page The users can either take this under advisement when reading the page or edit the page to bring it up to Wikipedia s standards This article does not cite any references or sources Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed September 2010 Figure 14 A Wikipedia Maintenance Tag Template Infoboxes Another useful template is the Infobox which provides at a glance information to users as soon as they access an article Infoboxes are used to maintain constant structure across articles of similar topics
3. o INTERACTIVE QUALIFYING PROJECT Venipedia A Modern Knowledge amp Data Wiki Dedicated to the City of Venice Thomas Finelli Catherine O Brien Kevin Scannell 12 18 2010 Project Advisors Prof Fabio Carrera Prof James Cocola ve10 veni wpi edu https sites zoogle com site ve10tude http venipedia or Authorship amp Acknowledgements Authorship All three students contributed equally to the revising and editting of this report Acknowledgements We would like to thank the following people for all of their help and support during our project Kyle Miller for assisting us with the technical aspects of configuring and setting up Venipedia The PresserVenice team for their contribution of their art catalog to Venipedia Professors Fabio Carrera and James Cocola as well as the Venice Project Center Staff without whom this project would not have been possible Abstract There are many people and organizations in the world that have collected data and information pertaining to Venice but there is currently little data and information available on the internet about the subject The Venice Project Center VPC at WPI is one organization that has collected a large amount of information and data about Venice It currently has no method of making its data available to the public This project is our attempt to remedy this problem through a unique data oriented wiki created by the VPC called Venipedia Executive Su
4. File Name show PAGENAME WPI Code format gallery For more information on the Semantic Result Formats extension see Appendix D Semantic Extensions and or visit the extension page on MediaWiki located at http www mediawiki org wiki Extension Semantic Result Formats Formatting the Data The data must be formatted in a very specific way so that the extension DataTransfer can understand and properly import the data into Venipedia We have developed a guide on how the data should be formatted 1 Put the data into CSV format a Using Microsoft Access Go to the External Data tab gt gt under Exports click Export to Excel spreadsheet gt gt See Using Microsoft Excel to convert to CSV below b Using Microsoft Excel File Save As click Save as type box select CSV Comma delimited csv 2 There are two special column titles that DataTransfer allows Title and Free Text e The Title section is what the name of the article should be and is the only required field e The Free Text section is text that doesn t belong in a template Typically the following goes inside the Free Text section Images Data Map Datajj Category Data 3 Rename the rest of the columns in the spreadsheet to the format TemplateName datafield The data fields values must match their respective templates Template Infobox Data and Template Page Data Save the file 5 Now we have to change the e
5. Ca Civran Ca Clary Ca Cocco Ca Contarini Ca Corner Ca Correggio Ca Costa CaDandolo Ca Da Riva Ca Diedo CaDolfin Ca Dona Ca d Oro CaDuodo Ca Erizzo Ca Farsetti Ca Foscari Ca Franchetti Ca Frescada Ca Gaggia Ca Garzoni Ca Gipvanelli Palaces open to the public Ca Giustinian Ca Gradenigo Ca Grimani Ca Gussoni Ca Labia Ca Layard Ca Loredan Ca Malipiero Ca Manfrin Ca Manolesso Ca Marcello Ca Marcora Ca Martinengo Ca Michiel Ca Minelii Ca Mocenigo Ca Molin Cahora Ca Moro Ca Morosini Ca Hani Ca Hunziatura Ca Oddoni Ca Papadopoli Ca Pesaro Ca Pisani Ca Priuli Ca Querini Ca Rezzonico Ca Ridotto Ca Rota Ca Sagredo Ca Sanudo Ca Savorgnan Ca Sceriman Ca Soranzo CaTiepolo Ca Tron Ca Vendramin Ca Zaguri Ca Zenobio Ca Ziani Ca Zorzi 52 Maintenance Tags The purpose of maintenance tags is to inform the community that the article needs work These maintenance tags already existed when we received the website in August 2010 We felt that the purpose of each maintenance tag was necessary and appropriate thus we did not change the content of each maintenance tag However we overhauled the look and feel of the maintenance tags so that they would be similar to Wikipedia s style of maintenance tags Types Within Venipedia there are 6 types of maintenance tags that correspond with 6 different colors These tags can be found on Veni
6. 14 Defines a parser function amp compound query that can make multiple Semantic CompoundQueries September MediaWiki queries at the same time 2010 www mediawiki org wiki Extension SemanticCcompoundQueries SemanticMaps Allows users to edit and display semantic coordinate data using multiple mapping greater services Www mediawiki org wiki Extension Semantic Maps SemanticMediaWiki 1 5 4 2010 1 15 00r Allows users to add structured data to wiki pages through simple wikitext markup that 12 01 greater turns links to other pages and data values in a page into meaningful properties With tested upto this information SMW helps to search organize browse evaluate and share the wiki s 1 17alpha content r63248 SemanticResultFormats 1 5 1 2010 1 11 00r 08 26 greater UsabilityInitiative N A 1 164 Features developed by the Wikipedia Usability Initiative to enhance the usability of MediaWiki include enhancements for the Vector skin e g Vector toolbar and edit Validator 0 4 2 2010 Tested with Provides generic parameter handling support to other extensions required for Maps 10 28 1 15 5 and and Semantic Maps 1 17 probably supports older versions above iki Generate graphs from a semantic textual description of objects and their relations 08 15 http www mediawiki org wiki Extension Wgraph Italicized text indicates that the extension was installed prior to our involvement with Venipedia August 2010 6
7. Defining Property IDE Sinaloa 65 QUERYING Dir mur c d ae ueocsunsona E 66 Semantic iioc ERES 66 SEMAanNtieCOMPOUNA QUENEeS tte 67 Semantic Result EOS ei er 67 Appendix E Importing Data bs 69 Verifying the Installation of DataTransfer nennen eene nennen nnne nennen nns 69 Derinins remTipldLes uc achivio 69 Template nobox Data aria 69 Template Page Daiano ata 70 Template Viap Datd asados 70 Template Mage Data EET 70 Formattiine the Dita AA vine asina caia wages 71 Uploading and Importing IMagesS nennen enne nennen nnne anna nnns 71 U 5loading Imases tO THe SCE VCR rasoi 71 Importing Images into VENIDA Lalli 72 Importin bDoa alcalina 72 AppendbeF Lookand Feel CodinSa coralli 73 Directory Path venipedia skins Vectorphp ii 73 GooBle Analvties TracKNS dani AAA aerea 73 Venipeala LO roccia 73 BOOK EO GO wists sa leali 74 File Directory venipedia skins vector main ltr CSS eese nnns 75 11 Table of Figures Figure 1 Relative comparison of the percentage of people in the world red internet users blue and Wikipedia users day Wikipedia logo 4 Figure 2 Old Venipedia skin left and New Venipedia Skin right 5 Figure 3 An example of a semantic map in which markers will automatically be added if new data is entered 7 Figure 4 A diagram of the first four connected sites on ARPA s network representing UCLA UCSB the Stanford Research Institute and the University of Utah not
8. 53 Lcd E Santa Croce A Bacing Stazione Venezia Sestiere un Dorsoduro Y re See Also e Bridges Bridges Over The Grand Canal e Ponte dell Accademia e Ponte degli Scalzi e Ponte della Costituzione External Links Ponte di Rialto Wikipedia Italia amp Rialto Bridge Wikipedia English de References e http en wikipedia org wiki Rialto_Bridge amp e http www britannica com EBchecked topic 625298 V enice 24379 Canal boats and bridges anchor ref388643 de e iD ODETOTVI D om rn ali ved e Bridges Bridges Over The Grand Canal Ponte dell Accademia Ponte di Rialto Ponte degli Scalzi Ponte della Costituzione This page was last modified on 6 December 2010 at 22 09 Page loads 69 C C Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike 3 0 United States License Privacy policy About Venipedia Disclaimers CE LI Venice 2 0 Figure 22 The Ponte di Rialto Page in Venipedia with new feature highlighted 34 4 1 1 Look and Feel Look and Feel refers to the user s interaction with Venipedia We ve changed the Look and Feel of Venipedia through the creation of a new skin and the addition of a comprehensive Help section to help new users edit the wiki We changed the skin from the one previously installed at Venipedia s creation to one known as Vector which is the Wikimedia product serving as the standard skin for Wikipedia We then modified Vector to incorporate the Venipedia banner from the ol
9. As we finish the project 929 visits to Venipedia have come from those search engines or about 5996 of all visits About 23 percent have come from referring sites such as Wikipedia Venice2pointO and Facebook and about 1896 has been direct traffic where users type www venipedia org into their address bars While search traffic has been consistently ahead of the other sources throughout the term referral and direct traffic have been alternating fairly regularly perhaps implying that users are 37 being referred to the site and then going there directly afterward Traffic Sources Overview Nov 9 2010 Dec 9 2010 3 Visits m All Visits Search Traffic Direct Traffic Referral Traffic E SiS E N e N _ d I N gt eli td nn BO ems Ser s ga bd Ss c O Len a TT lt P tn O cs TN NI A Ns ts Figure 27 A graph showing the sources of Venipedia s visitors for each day from 11 09 2010 to 12 09 2010 Another important piece of information gleaned from Google Analytics is the list of search words which lead to Venipedia As of the end of the term the top 5 search terms are Venipedia Wikimecum Venice list flood Propel a gondola pr dco E E Archaeological sites in Venice These five phrases account for twenty percent 2096 of all visits to Venipedia Venipedia as a search phrase is self explanatory but the others warrant some consideration Wik
10. For example each U S President has an infobox displaying that president s term Vice President successor date of birth date of death spouse occupation signature and other biographical information An example of the President Infobox can be found at the right The advantage to having infoboxes as templates is that they are moderately complex examples of the wiki syntax If the infobox needed to be created from scratch on every page it would both present itself as a tedious task and possibly cause disparity amongst pages due to human error in the process of rebuilding the boxes This is the true point of templates consolidating wiki code so that it can be replicated Navigation Boxes Navboxes Another general template is the Navbox which allows for navigation ibid ibid Wikipedia 2010 22 George Washington 1st President of the United States In office April 30 1789 March 4 1797 Vice President John Adams Preceded by Office Created Succeeded by John Adams 1st Commander in Chief of the Continental Army In office June 15 1775 December 23 1783 Appointed by Continental Congress Succeeded by Henry Knox In office July 13 1798 December 14 1799 President John Adams Preceded by Succeeded by Alexander Hamilton James Wilkinson Born February 22 1732 Westmoreland County Colony of Virginia Died December 14 1799 aged 67 Mount Vernon Virginia Resting place Washington f
11. everts Main Page Recent chenpas Random pape Welcome to Venipedia A free onine resource all about Venice kaby Welcome to Venipedia ast A free online resource all about Venice Italy e Urban 2 articles about Venice an What i Venipedia d growing maintenance e All Random article Mori enter f s Venipedia where you can find t wanted to know about Venice This is an effort to create F eatured articles that contains all of the results produced and information re than 400 WPI students who have New to wiki i How you can help Consult the User Guidelines for more m or 0 beg Start wreng articles Venetian public art nice vibra a o 1 Note You must be a registered member Check ost the Hals secto stri sh voip dh New to wiki Cs XN Jenipedia p a Venlpedk wt ARIE NE Vel Consult the Editing Guide for more information on how to begin fra rA da AEST m 3 Note You must be a registered member to edit this wiki NETT A L L Wanted pages lama ecala nmhlam Figure 2 Old Venipedia skin left and New Venipedia Skin right In addition to modifying the skin of the front page we also modified the content The broken and useless links were removed to clean up the appearance of the front page The random article feature was modified Frequently the random article would be formatted poorly or it would not display correctly in the random article box This was a major problem because it
12. explore new technologies to be utilized for data sharing We implemented a system in Venipedia using the new web phenomenon of linked data We created a maintenance program for Venipedia by writing guides on how to properly create edit and categorize articles and cleaned Venipedia up by categorizing articles as well as making a few improvements to their content In order to disseminate the data in the field we implemented a mobile application to provide on the go access to Venipedia in the city of Venice 14 2 0 Background The modern internet represents an evolution of ideas and technology The first long range network SAGE was brought online in 1962 as an American early warning system The first host to host communication occurred a few years later in October of 1969 The worldwide web was developed later in 1989 In the early 1990 s the wider web was finalized at CERN and conventions were laid down leading to the internet we know today an amalgamation of the two Figure 4 A diagram of the first four connected sites Over time the internet has evolved to contain more on ARPA s network representing UCLA UCSB the than just raw information It now features online stores and Stanford Research Institute and the University of Utah not to scale social networks which have helped to make it an integral part of daily life for over 1 5 billion people However the internet still hasn t truly strayed from its ro
13. format that it describes and each section contains a description of what belongs there The final section of the user guide provides a guide to the wiki syntax used to create and edit articles in Venipedia Again we reference the Wikipedia guide to syntax because it is already so fully developed While this is true there are also features that are unique to Venipedia that are fully explained in our user guide We researched various methods of data management searching for one that met our needs We wanted a way to effectively manage our data but also to present it in Venipedia We found what we were looking for by using the Semantic MediaWiki extension This extension for the MediaWiki software allows you to tag pieces of data and search through these tags creating relationships between pieces of information We tagged the information that was contained within infoboxes allowing Venipedia users to connect articles through similarities in the infobox information Additionally it is also possible to tag files that are uploaded to the website A spreadsheet or database file can be attached to a relevant article the file can be tagged and can then be accessed semantically Another feature that the Semantic MediaWiki extension supports is the use of Semantic Maps This allows users to encode an interactive map with geographical data that is pulled directly from the infoboxes at the time the page is accessed by the user This means that the data on the
14. gave users a very poor impression of the website from the get go As a result we changed the random article element on the front page to a featured article element We also modified the description on the main page to more accurately reflect the new mission of Venipedia as an English language resource about the city of Venice for a wide range of people Additionally the structure of Venipedia needed to be modified As it stood the content of Venipedia was scattered and hard to use The only way to find anything in Venipedia was to search for the specific topic There was no way to see related content We resolved this by modifying the structure of the website as well as using the Semantic MediaWiki extension Below is a description of the restructuring process and the Semantic MediaWiki extension will be discussed in a later section of the methodology We began the restructuring process by sorting the content of Venipedia We created the UnderConstruction namespace and began going through all of the articles in Venipedia and sorting them based on their quality The articles were evaluated in five main areas the relevance to Venice the information and details the references the style and grammar and the features of the article info boxes diagrams maps etc As the articles we sorted articles based on their quality we also sorted them based on their topic We sorted the articles into categories of common topics for example art architectu
15. general public This data is unavailable because it is held by private organizations or is in Italian Most information available about the city of Venice is available through general information sources like Wikipedia Wikipedia contains 3 425 507 articles in 262 languages but the unique element of this online encyclopedia is its wiki format Anyone can log on and add to or edit the content providing an outlet for a huge amount of information that is accessed and altered by a wide range of users On the English Wikipedia there are over 2 000 pages relating to Venice These pages provide the public with information relevant to Venice in many different areas but focusing on general information While this general information is adequate for many those studying Venice in earnest this level of information is insufficient and they must look elsewhere Specific information about Venice exists but the data available is mostly in Italian The Italian version of Wikipedia contains more specific information than the English version Venice has its own portal in the Italian Wikipedia while it is only a category in the English Wikipedia Other wiki sites like Wikipedia exist for specialized topics and hobbies from genealogy to Star Wars In 2008 WPI s Venice Project Center created its own wiki called Venipedia as a resource for topics related to the city of Venice and the work done there by the Institute s students over the past 20 years Beyond simpl
16. internet is a superior choice for the d presentation of information and data While this website provided some useful information about the city it was incomplete unorganized and contained little data This project made the Venipedia website a useful and sustainable resource about the city of Venice by restructuring the website and incorporating the semantic E Figure 1 Relative comparison of the web and a mobile application percentage of people in the world red internet users blue and Wikipedia A wiki based website is one that allows users to edit the users day Wikipedia logo content of the website the most well known wiki is the online encyclopedia Wikipedia Venipedia utilizes this format so that anyone who has data about Venice can add it to the website The semantic web was incorporated into the website in order to help manage the data of Venipedia Utilizing the semantic web allows the computer to understand data which is accomplished by creating links between data identifying the relationship between different these pieces of data Layar is an augmented reality mobile application The application identifies the location of the smartphone user and shows points of interest as an overlay of the video display of the phone The goal of this project is to help anyone interested in the city of Venice by providing both information and data about the city through Venipedia and an augmented reality mobile application In or
17. islands and Died May 31 1594 Age 75 organizations The artist info box can be seen in the figure on Teacher Titian the right The structure of the info boxes is also advantageous Pupils Domenico Tintoretto Son Martin de Vos for the Semantic MediaWiki installation which we will discuss uis in the following objective section Worship of the Golden Cal Works Presentation of the Virgin in In addition the info boxes we created nav boxes for the Temple Last Judgment several categories in Venipedia These nav boxes are helpful os ar because they allow users to see the content of a category at the Paradise bottom of an article in that category We created four nav ian iran Locations Paintings here boxes for bridges convents islands of the Venetian lagoon and palaces Figure 20 Artist Info Box 29 vedee Convents hide Convento di Gesuiti Convento di Madonna dell Orto Convento di S Alvise Convento di S Caterina Convento di S Giobbe Convento di S Girolamo Convents of Cannaregio Convento di S Maria delle Penitenti Convento di S Maria dei Miracoli Convento S Maria di Nazateth Scalzi Convento di S Anna Convento de la Fava Convento della Ca di Dio Convento della Celestia Convento della piet S M della Visitazione Convento delle Suore Mantellate C dE EHE Convento di F da Paula Convento di Mendicanti Convento di Muneghette Convento di S Apollonia Convento di S Elena Co
18. map is automatically updated with any changes every time someone views it Thus the maps are essentially sustainable and do not need to be updated regularly In an extension related to the Semantic Media gt n Tel i gt j Wiki we were also able to mass upload data from a DI Rezia SBstere ve Pe naregio spreadsheet format into both articles and infoboxes Utilizing the VPC s catalogue of convents in Venice Eni a and this extension we were able to create a series of D y Venezia Venezia Sestiere San Polo articles one for each convent in the city Taking azione Venezia eat er P information from the fields of the spreadsheet the Tagy extension automatically filled in an infobox template ma vl at and an article template Figure 3 An ear of a semantic ey in which i will automatically be added if new data is entered To allow Venipedia to be accessed by users touring the city of Venice we developed a layer for the Layar application The first step was to identify which articles should be grouped together for each layer We created a sample layer for convents and aided other WPI teams in creating a number of other augmented reality Layar applications Our Layer used the co ordinates of the convents of Venice gathered by a past WPI project group We worked to make Venipedia more useful to the general public To do so we de emphasized WPI moving project results into more general articles and
19. plus sign indicates a wildcard meaning it will search for anything that has the property WPI Code To put the above query into words search for anything that uses the property WPI Code To find just Convents that have a WPI Code then we d have to restrict our search results This can only be done if all of the Convents are grouped in some manner On Venipedia we have grouped all of the convents into the Category titled Convents To refine the search we can type ask Category Convents PWPI Code To put the above query into words search for anything in the Convent category and then display the WPI Code as a property This query can be expanded to include other properties such as Coordinates Parish Sestiere etc ask Category Convents gt WPI Code Coordinates PParish Sestiere To put the above query into words search for anything in the Category titled Convents and display the properties WPI Code Coordinates Parish and Sestiere Semantic Maps This extension is used in combination with the Map extension to make maps semantic For example it s possible to query a category for geographical data and then display the data as a map Continuing with the Convent example from above we could use the same code with one addition format map ask Category Convents WPI Code Coordinates PParish 66 PSestiere format map jj This query would display all of the convents on a map with
20. removed the Wikimecum a resource intended for WPI Venice Project Center students Through the addition of new features appearance and content we have shaped Venipedia into a viable resource poised for future growth Additionally we ve implemented Resource Description Framework RDF tagging to allow VPC data to be added to the site in an easily maintainable public way Finally we added Venipedia to the mobile application Layar so that visitors to the city can learn about it as they explore via augmented reality Within the site we imposed a new structure to ensure consistency throughout related articles and a general feel to the entire site This new structure emphasizes further research with See Also External Links and References sections on each page There is also attention paid to conformity through new templates such as the infoboxes and navboxes as well as the newly added Portal structure which allows users to start with broad ideas and narrow in on specific content We ve also tracked Venipedia s performance to show that as we improved it more people have discovered it and its use is trending upward suggesting that our work will in the long run allow more people to learn about the city We would like to encourage the readers of this report both to visit the Venipedia website to learn something new about the city and to contribute their own unique knowledge and expertise be it related to the content of the s
21. the Parish and Sestiere properties shown in balloons as data Additionally if a new convent is added to the category then the map would automatically update itself since the map submits a new query each time it s loaded on a page This eliminates the tedious task of manually updating every convent map every time a new convent is added For complete instructions on how to utilize this extension view this exension s MediaWiki page located www mediawiki org wiki Semantic Maps and the User Manual located at http mapping referata com wiki Help User manual Semantic Compound Queries This extension allows for multiple queries to be made within the same parser tag It follows the structure Hcompound_ query Boundary1 Property1A Property2A Property3A Boundary2 Property2A Property2B Property3B This is useful when you want compare different data sets with one another A specific application in which this extension shines is when you re comparing different categories on maps For example you could display all the convents in Venice with green markers and all of the churches in Venice with blue markers For complete instructions on how to utilize this extension view this extension s MediaWiki page located www mediawiki org wiki Semantic Compound Queries Semantic Result Formats The Semantic Results Format allows data to be displayed in a variety of formats that are not included with the Semantic MediaWiki ext
22. to scale 15 Figure 5 WikiWikiWeb Symbol 16 Figure 6 Wikiwiki Shuttle at the Honolulu Airport that served as inspiration for wiki 16 Figure 7 Nupedia Logo 17 Figure 8 Wikipedia Logo 17 Figure 9 Graph of the article count for the English Wikipedia from January 10 2001 to September 9 2007 the date of the two millionth article 17 Figure 10 Five Pillars of Wikipedia 18 Figure 11 Encyclopedia Britannica Logo 19 Figure 12 Nature logo 19 Figure 13 The Wikipedia Search Bar 20 Figure 14 Wikipedia s Arts Portal 20 Figure 15 Categories within the Arts Portal 21 Figure 16 The Paintings Category 21 Figure 17 An excerpt from the President Infobox from Wikipedia 22 Figure 18 A Wikipedia Maintenance Tag Template 22 Figure 19 Venipedia s Header 23 Figure 20 Visual representation of an RDF triple http www w3 org TR rdf concepts 24 Figure 21 Result of multiple RDF triples to link data http www w3 org TR rdf concepts 24 Figure 22 The iTunes App Store s 1st Year Growth 25 Figure 23 Old Venipedia Skin left and New Venipedia Skin right 28 Figure 24 Maintenance Tag Example 28 Figure 25 Artist Info Box 29 Figure 26 Convents Nav Box 30 Figure 27 The Convent Database in Excel 32 Figure 28 The Ponte di Rialto Page in Venipedia with new feature highlighted 34 Figure 29 Venipedia s original skin 35 Figure 30 Venipedia s New Skin 35 Figure 31 The number of daily visitors to Venipedia between 11 09 2010 and 12 09 2010 37 Fig
23. using a query language such as the SPARQL Protocol and the RDF Query Language SPARQL Atypical searches can be performed such as search for all churches in Venice that were built after 1800 and are still active in colloquial language form In RDF triples a Uniform Resource Identifiers URI is required for the subject These URIs point to specific RDF data which show all of the relationships pertaining to that specific piece of data The subject is the current piece of data being examined It is through the accumulation of these URIs that a data tree forms The predicate is represented as a label defined in a vocabulary so as to be consistent across websites Vocabularies are defined for public use so as to encourage consistent use and users of the semantic web are encouraged to define new labels as necessary The final part of the triplet the object is the actual datum being related to Objects can be literals strings or even other URIs which is where the overall tree comes from the relationships of many URIs The end result of the application of linked data is an over arching tree made of smaller specific trees Some applications of RDF datasets include both data gov and data gov uk among others These sites have been set up by governments to expand upon the new Semantic Web approach which incorporates RDF tagging into the existing internet It is currently possible to search the aforementioned sites for various datasets gathered
24. 2 Changes Made to LocalSettings php for Extensions The first step in installing an extension is to add it to the LocalSettings php file which is located in the root directory of the MediaWiki installation We ve included the code that we ve appended to the file for all the extensions that we ve installed AAA 4 4 4 EXTENSIONS AA FCHANGE added by Kevin 12 01 10 to enable the Semantic Mediawiki GUI Halo IMPORTANT This extension MUST be first List all other extensions AFTER this one require once SIP extensions 5eriptManager 5M Initialize php CHANGE added by Tom to allow use of infoboxes which requires the ParserFunctions extension require once SIP extensions ParserFunctions ParserFunctions php CHANGE added by Tom on 11 16 10 to install Semantic MediaWiki SsmwgNamespaceIndex 200 include once SIP extensions SemanticMediaWiki SemanticMediaWiki php enableSemantics venipedia org SsmwgQSubcategoryDepth 0 require once SIP extenslons Cite Cite php jj require once SIP extensions DynamicPageList DynamicPageList2 php Added by Kevin on 12 6 10 to enable SMWHalo include once extensions SMWHalo includes SMW Initialize php enableSMWHalo param start enableSMWHalo SMWHaloStore2 NULL NULL param end enableSMWHalo SwgUseAjax true Added by Kevin on 12 8 10 to enable Collection PDF Book extension require onoe 5SIP extensions Collectrion Collectron php Sw
25. As the nearby Rialto Market grew in size and importance pedestrian traffic increased over the bridge creating the need for a more stable solution The floating pontoon Ponte della Moneta was replaced in 1255 by a wooden bridge This next bridge featured two inclined ramps meeting at a movable central section which could be raised to allow 4 the passage of tall ships The proximity and connection with the Rialto Market led to the bridge to be referred to as the Ponte di Rialto During the first half of the 15th Century two rows of shops were built along the sides of the bridge The rent from these shops was collected by the State Treasury which went directly to funding maintainance on the bridge E The timber bridge did indeed require a great deal of maintenance It was partially burned down during a revold in 1310 and suffered a pair of collapses as well One in 1444 under the weight of a crowd watching a boat parade and again in 1524 It was apparent that a timber bridge at the site of the Rialto was an inefficient design The idea for a stone bridge was first proposed in 1503 In the following decades a number of designs and projects were considered In 1551 Venetian authorities requested formal proposals for a new design of the Ponte di Rialto A number of famous architects of the day were considered including the great Michelangelo All of these designs involved a classical approach with a number of arches which were judged inappropriate for t
26. NULL NULL 0 1 NULL NULL 0 0 0 1 1 Figure 27 The Convent Database in Excel Once the necessary information has been compiled we used the Layar API to link the points to a live map of Venice From there we used an iPhone 3GS to test the layer s in the city by 1 Usingthe application to guide us to each location 2 Using the application to access each point s Venipedia entry 3 Using the application to access any relevant material audio video etc After the successful testing of each layer we submitted the layer to Layar for review and publication with the ultimate goal of having our layer publically available by December 18 2010 32 4 0 Results amp Analysis Over the two terms we worked on Venipedia we ve worked to change it from a WPI student resource to a public repository of knowledge and data Our first step in this shift was to de emphasize WPI in the articles and remove WPl specific pages such as the Wikimecum We wanted Venipedia to reflect public interest in the city not just the academic focus of students completing projects at WPI Next we sorted through the articles to determine which truly belonged in the website The following chapter summarizes our results for each of the previously defined objectives 4 1 Venipedia Improvements Our work on Venipedia has been generally focused on the underlying content and features moreso than the content of the articles However some work has been done for article generatio
27. able and do not need to be updated regularly In an extension related to the Semantic Media Wiki we were also able to mass upload data from a spreadsheet format into both articles and infoboxes Utilizing the VPC s catalogue of convents in Venice and this extension we were able to create a series of articles one for each convent in the city Taking information from the fields of the spreadsheet the extension automatically filled in an infobox template and an article template 31 3 3 Mobile Application To allow Venipedia to be accessed by users touring the city of Venice we developed a layer for the Layar application The first step was to identify which articles should be grouped together for each layer WE created a sample layer for convents and aided other WPI teams in creating a number of other augmented reality layar applications Our layer used the co ordinates of the convents of Venice gathered by a past IQP group In order to define the layers we created a series of database tables one of individual points of interest and another of actions for those points for each of the layers The tables were made as csv files in Microsoft Excel then imported into the SQL database associated with Venipedia S1 Y Fe A B E D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R 1 id attribution title lat lon imageURL line4 line3 line2 type dimensior alt relativeAl distance inFocus doNotindishowSmalshowBiwOnClick 2 1 REDE Convento 45 42391 12 33269 NULL NULL
28. amily vault Mount Vernon Nationality American British subject prior to 1776 Political party None Spouse s Martha Dandridge Custis Washington Children none Occupation Farmer planter soldier officer Religion Church of England Episcopal Signature ES A 2 A Figure 13 An excerpt from the President Infobox from across a category The navbox sits at the bottom of each page within certain categories allowing users to continue to learn about the category through further examples 2 1 2 Venipedia In 1988 the Venice Project Center VPC was formed as a part of Worcester Polytechnic Institute s WPI Global Perspective Program After 20 years of data collection and project work the VPC has a lot of information on it servers In April of 2008 in order to share this data with the world Venipedia was created Venipedia is a wiki encyclopedia dedicated to the city Venice log in create account Figure 15 Venipedia s Header Venipedia started not only as an outlet for the VPC s information but also as an English language resource for people interested in the Venice beyond the tourist spectrum Most of the resources currently available are in Italian and Venipedia was created to fill that gap As this project began all of the content was student generated by past WPI teams and largely un maintained when groups were not working in Venice As of October 2010 Venipedia contained 388 articles However 102 of t
29. and correcting the lamage 56 Appendix C Extensions Extensions are compilations of PHP code that add new features or enhance functionality of the main MediaWiki core Extensions are one of the main advantages of MediaWiki They give wiki administrators and wiki end users the ability to adapt MediaWiki to their requirements Depending on your goals you can use extensions to e extend the wiki markup used to write articles Category Parser function extensions and Category Parser extensions for examples e add new reporting and administrative capabilities Category Special page extensions for examples e change the look and feel of MediaWiki Gallery of user styles and Category User interface extensions for examples e enhance security via custom authentication mechanisms Category Authentication and Authorization Extensions for examples Source directly from http www mediawiki org wiki Manual Extensions Installations We ve installed 16 extensions which perform various functions that enhance Venipedia General MediaWiki Extension Install Procedure 1 Search the MediaWiki site to find the extension you want to install 2 Verify that the extension will work with the current version of MediaWiki To find this information go to the page Special Version in Venipedia 3 Satisfy any prerequisite extensions that the extension may have by installing them first Each extension should have its own unique installation instructions Fi
30. arserFunctions allows logical statements to be run within the wiki For example it can evaluate conditional statements as well as simple mathematical expressions This extension is required by many other extensions Infoboxes is one feature that relies heavily on this extension Semantic Compound Queries See Appendix D Semantic Extensions Semantic Maps See Appendix D Semantic Extensions Semantic MediaWiki See Appendix D Semantic Extensions SemanticResultFormats See Appendix D Semantic Extensions 59 UsabilityInitiative This extension was developed by the Wikipedia Foundation to enhance features of the Vector skin It adds a fresh new toolbar which is planned to become the default toolbar in an upcoming version of MediaWiki The toolbar also includes many unique features such as the insertion of special characters built in Help function and improved insertion of media and tables Validator Validator provides generic parameter handling support to other extensions required for Maps and Semantic Maps Using Each Extension For directions on how to use each extension find the extension in the table below and visit the extensions MediaWiki page listed in the table for instructions This allows the reader to view the most up to date information about the extension 60 Table of Installed Extensions Version Call 1 2 2009 1 7 and later Create dynamic wiki pages by passing parameters m oem http www mediawiki org w
31. ate Navbox doc 19 Go to the Template Navbox page in Venipedia There will most likely be many red links present This means that the current template refers to other templates which don t exist in Venipedia since the code was copied from Wikipedia 20 Parse through the document and pick out the red links that seem to be required for the actual structure of the navbox There will be many unnecessary red links that are Wikipedia exclusive which is why the mport and Export feature is not desirable in this situation 21 Repeat steps 2 5 for each red link that is dependent upon the structure for navboxes 22 Troubleshoot It will take time and patience to figure out which red links are required Refer to Wikipedia s template page on navboxes http en wikipedia org wiki Template Navbox if necessary Creating a Navbox Refer to the Template Navbox page in Wikipedia It has detailed instructions on how to create a navbox Also refer other premade navboxes such as Template Bridges Template Convents Template Islands and Template Palaces in Venipedia for the formatting of both the template page and the documentation subpage To give a brief explanation 7 Goto http en wikipedia org wiki Template Navbox 8 Copy the generalized navbox code from the heading Usage 9 Create a page titled Template Infobox Foo in Venipedia where Foo is the unique name of your navbox 10 Paste the code into the page and fill out the title and appropriate gro
32. ate information While presentation of inaccurate information may be an unintentional mistake there are also people who deliberately post inaccurate information in order to deface particular articles or mislead Wikipedia Khamsi 2005 Sutherland 2006 ibid Wikipedia 2010 28 ibid ibid ibid Encyclopedia Britannica 2010 18 readers about a specific subject One prominent example is the Wikipedia entry on a former assistant to Robert Kennedy John Seigenthaler In his entry Seigenthaler was falsely identified as a suspect in 4 sua i 33 34 In addition to accuracy concerns there are also concerns with the assassination of Robert Kennedy the style of entries in Wikipedia There are issues with the readability and structure of articles which can be confusing as well as the fact that undue prominence is occasionally given to less important topics Despite all of these concerns there is evidence that Wikipedia is on Eu c YEUOPE il the right track In 2005 Nature performed a peer review study of 50 entries i on science related topics from both Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica ms o n dii Britannica The reviewers were given the entries without knowing their sources and asked to look for nature Figure 8 Encyclopedia 3 mistakes per entry in Encyclopedia Britannica and an Figure 7 Nature logo inaccuracies in the entries There were an average of Britannica Logo average o
33. bout Venice Italy e Urban 2 articles about Venice and growing maintenance Ji categones Random artide Mori nipedia wher u can find 3 din create de Leni x spor in Featured articles New to wiki Om dab UR How you can help 1i students who have Venetian public art Venice is a ve User Guidelines f ibran eum cih on how to bag tart writing articles section New to wiki Consult the Editing Guide for more information on how to begin Note You must be a registere nber to edit t Wanted pages Figure 23 Old Venipedia skin left and New Venipedia Skin right 3 1 2 Modifying the Structure The structure of Venipedia also needed to be modified as it stood the content of Venipedia was scattered and hard to use The only way to find anything in Venipedia was to search for the specific topic There was no way to see related content We resolved this by modifying the structure of the website as well as using the Semantic MediaWiki extension Below is a description of the restructuring process and the Semantic MediaWiki extension will be discussed in a later section of the methodology We began the restructuring process by sorting the content of Venipedia We created the UnderConstruction namespace and began going through all of the articles in Venipedia and sorting them based on their quality The articles were evaluated in five main areas the relevance to Venice the information and details th
34. by the websites respective governments They have been developed 24 based on the concepts of RDF triplets and the SPARQL query engine The sites are currently in a testing phase as the idea of the Semantic Web is still new and growing 2 3 Mobile Applications One relatively new and growing method of information sharing exists in the form of smartphones As of July 2010 40 of Americans use their cellphones to access the internet Smartphones in particular have grown from being used by 1496 of Americans in 2008 to 2196 in 2009 Additionally 4596 of those surveyed by Nielsen claimed that they plan to buy a smartphone as their next mobile device Smartphones differ from regular mobile phones in their ability to run applications apps for short which are small programs with various purposes Apps have also proven financially attractive to developers with Apple s App store for its iPhone device generating 250 Million dollars in revenue in December of last year Google s Android Market does not release official sales figures but its 37000 paid applications generate an estimated 5 Million dollars per month Additionally Android phones can run applications purchased or downloaded from outside sources such as a developer s website Applications represent a new and unique method for the release of data For example the US government has published an app which alerts users to food recalls The number of apps has also seen tr
35. ccess to the site is through the use of the Layar application While the original hope was to create layers for various series of Venetian landmarks our focus on Venipedia s functionality over content has lead to the creation of only one that of the convents of the city Another team Preservenice has created layers for all of the public art in Venice with links to the relevant articles but beyond that layers are being left for future groups to generate see recommendations The convent layer however provides the locations of all the convents in Venice as well as links to their Venipedia pages which were generated through an importing tool we installed in Venipedia to handle converting large amounts of data from the VPC into articles Again this has only been used on the convents so far due to time constraints 39 Convento di S Giustina Distance 238ft n E o A Y NN Figure 29 A screenshot of the convent layer running on the iPhone MUNE 40 5 0 Recommendations The main issue facing Venipedia as we finish our project is a lack of content However the wiki format is designed to allow anyone to contribute even those unrelated to WPI This model combined with the wiki assignment from the ID 2050 course should lead to a more robust Venipedia However the assignment can possibly be redesigned to better focus on what Venipedia lacks Students could be asked to select one article each from the wanted pages and
36. ck in Hawaiian While there are many different wikis online today they all share the goals of fast and simple content generation collaboration and distribution In order to accomplish these goals wikis also have similar user functions which include adding new content linking content editing content organizing content and viewing content history These goals and functions allow wikis to perform all of the actions required for information management Wikis gather knowledge from the individuals that have it make it available connect others to it and connect it to information on other related subjects All of these attributes create advantages for using wikis Wikis can structure information by organizing contributions and providing external links and references The format encourages collective wisdom by allowing everyone to access and edit information the end product will theoretically be a reflection of a wide range of experience and expertise Control is also delegated allowing everyone to have input and allowing the wiki to be self policing Oxford English Dictionary 2007 i Haines 2007 O Leary 2008 1 Cunningham 1995 H ibid O Leary 2007 ibid ibid ibid 16 2 1 1 Wikipedia Soon after he created the WikiWikiWeb Cunningham developed the wiki software for public use People were allowed to register with the website access the software and alter it The users did this and then also used
37. currently only support for multimedia files to be downloaded to the user s computer but not played in the pages as is standard For the mobile application an app devoted entirely to Venipedia perhaps in the spirit of the iPhone app Wikiamo in regards to Wikipedia would be a gain in terms of user reach For the time being however Layar layers cover a variety of topics and refer users to the website lessening the need We have produced a layer for the convents and the Preservenice team has produced layers for each type of public art Other catalogs worth considering include churches and palaces as well as layers designed for each sestiere instead of just a subject For data management the Semantic Mediawiki extension is in place which allows Venipedia to utilize RDF tagging and generate things such as maps semantically Furthermore any file under 10 MB can be uploaded to Venipedia directly While it may be preferable in the future to increase the maximum size the option to use compressed zip folders alleviates the need There are some extensions which we would have liked to implement but could not For example SMW Halo adds an Ontology Browser which allows users to search for articles by category and or RDF properties It is currently installed on the Bluehost server but it is currently incompatible 41 with MediaWiki 1 16 which is the current version used in Venipedia Future administrators of Venipedia should consider re enablin
38. d skin We then further modified the banner adding the tagline The free encyclopedia of Venice Italy Figure 22 Item 1 so that users know on each page that content is related to Venice We made this addition to reduce potential confusion from external links without requiring phrases like in Venice in each page s title We decided on the Vector skin because of its use in Wikipedia While Venipedia is intended to stand apart as its own resource Wikipedia has become such a significant part of today s culture that we chose to use its design to increase user familiarity and comfort in Venipedia Vector also allows us to display the menus more easily Under the old skin there was a drop down menu and three buttons one of which was a link to Venice2pointO org at the top left of each page as well as a set of yellow buttons on the right side linking to pages for editing viewing history and accessing other wiki functions In addition to being non intuitive the left side menu was buggy the random page option for example only ever linked to the main page and Recent Changes did nothing In Main Page edt discuss more vi Vector the main text discussion page edit Welcome to Venipedia E page and history page of each article are Random article Venetian masks presented as a tab on that page situated just a mene emmys above the title Figure 22 Item 3 These C Puteo pto tu es options are inte
39. der to accomplish this goal the team developed three objectives to meet the current need for information and data sharing 1 To prepare the Venipedia website for its public use and develop a maintenance plan for its continued growth 2 To experiment with data management and sharing to make the data collected by the Venice Project Center available to the public 3 To develop a smart phone application utilizing Venipedia for an augmented reality experience in Venice As it stood in August 2010 the Venipedia website was an ineffective tool for information and data sharing because the website was confusing for people unfamiliar with the project center and there was not data available on the site In order to make the website useful for a broad range of users we implemented a series of improvements designed to facilitate the use of Venipedia by streamlining the look and feel of the site organizing the structure of the site standardizing page features and clarifying the editorial process We updated the skin to the one that Wikipedia currently uses with a few modifications to personalize it We made this decision for several reasons but mainly because most people are familiar with the Wikipedia skin and it will take them less time to feel comfortable with Venipedia The new skin is more streamlined and there are lots of advantageous features on the main page alone wiki menu recent changes random page venice 2 0 Veni edia i Current
40. done to manage this information and data except for Venipedia s creation The site contains documental information about various topics relating to the city of Venice such as history public art economics tourism and preservation but not necessarily the data gathered on those subjects 2 2 1 Resource Description Framework RDF bradicate A newly developed method to link and share data is the Resource Description Framework RDF technology The major concept behind RDF Figure 16 Visual representation of bi defining an RDF triple each piece of http www w3 org TR rdf data with http Amww example org terms address http www example org terms postalCode http Awww example org terms state concepts three parts a subject predicate and objects Figure 16 rm exemple oratemmsiciy resulting in a relationship known as an RDF triple The subject describes what the triple is about the predicate expresses what is ee temet being done and the object represents specific information pertaining to the Figure 17 Result of multiple RDF triples to link data subject Figure 17 By using this method to http www w3 org TR rdf concepts link data multiple relationships can form and a tree structure describing and linking the data will result Figure 17 If this process is applied to multiple sets of data then one large tree interconnecting every piece of data will eventually result This large data tree can be searched
41. e article Cite displays the References section and highlights the reference clicked Collection Collection allows a selection of articles from Venipedia to be downloaded in formats such as PDF ODF and XML This is useful if the user wants to have the information available without the use of the internet DataTransfer See Appendix E Importing Data DynamicPageList DynamicPageList allows for the creation of lists of other articles based on their category namespace title references or template usage and include contents or arguments of template calls of those articles into a page This extension is used to generate the Featured Article located on the main page of Venipedia lt dpl gt category Featured Articles Featured Article Bridges namespace Bridges are a key part of how the City of Venice moves With the city being a collection of over includemaxlength 1000 435 islands bridges are essential for the unity of the city and are one of the many characteristics V which make Venice unique Borne from sheer resultsheader NOTOC NOEDITSECTION necessity bridges have become true symbols of Venice randomcount 1 mode userformat The History of Bridges in Venice addpagecounter true Bridges serve as one of the world s most listseparators lt h2 style margin 0 M c Map of bridge locations in Venice D includepage escapelinks false pedestrian networks Regardless of their design background cedbff
42. e references the style and grammar and the features of the article info boxes diagrams maps etc Articles that met all of the criteria were left in the main namespace the articles that did not meet the criteria were tagged with a maintenance tag moved to the UnderConstruction namespace The maintenance tags that we applied to each page corresponded to the criteria that the article did not meet These tags are also helpful in the editorial process because the articles can be sorted by the tags that they have allowing an editor to easily identify the articles that he or she can improve i i There is very little for nothing on this page about how the topic relates ta Venice Please help make it relevant to Venipedia Figure 19 Maintenance Tag Example 28 Of all of the criteria the relevance to Venice is the most important If an article is not about a topic related to Venice or if the topic is not covered with a focus on Venice then the article does not belong in Venipedia The information provided in the article is also important if the article does not contain enough information to explain the topic then the article needs to be improved A good article also needs to provide a number of references from credible sources to show that the information that is being presented is accurate The style and grammar of an article are important because if they are not clear then the meaning of the article and the topic will also be unclear Fina
43. emendous growth as the new medium has developed Apple s iTunes App Store saw nearly 60 000 apps released in its first year While the majority of these apps are games or intended for entertainment they also include programs for iTunes App Store Growth education health news and reference 60000 2 3 1 Location Based Augmented Reality 45000 Applications Layar Many smartphones can now determine their xis location via GPS allowing for the development of location based apps Combining this GPS location with technologies like the accelerometer to determine the phone s orientation allows for the i May 30 2008 Sep 21 2008 Dec 30 2008 Apr 9 2009 development of Augmented Reality Applications gt Figure 18 The iTunes App Store s 1st Year Growth which use the phone to add graphics sounds Kharif 2010 il Google Android Leads Leap in Smartphone Use comScore Says 218468 Apple Inc and Microsoft Corp 2010 GigaOM 2010 AndroLib 2010 sh Gadhavi and Shah 2010 Ibid Bottemiller 2010 gt Kellet 2009 25 One such application is known as Layar Using a and haptic feedback to the natural world as it exists database of hotspots called Points of Interest Pols developers can use Layar to guide users to specific places via their phones First released in Amsterdam in June of 2009 Layar has grown becoming available in every country Applications of Layar range from
44. ension Some of the formats are e gallery this uses MediaWiki s built in lt gallery gt tags e googlebar displays a bar chart of number values using the Google Charts API e googlepie displays a pie chart of number values using the Google Charts API e timeline displays pages in a scrollable timeline using the SIMILE Timeline Javascript library e eventline similar to timeline but shows each page as an individual point instead of sometimes showing date ranges as timeline does e calendar displays pages in a monthly calendar 67 There is a lot of potential with the Semantic Results Format extensions We ve used it to generate the lt gallery gt for each of the convents but there are many more data formatting features that can be utilized by this extension such as dynamic Google bar and pie charts and timeline comparisons For complete instructions on how to utilize this extension view this extension s MediaWiki page located at http www mediawiki org wiki Extension Semantic Result Formats 68 Appendix E Importing Data One of the goals for our project was to explore and implement methods to manage the VPC s data During our time consuming and in depth research we found an extension called DataTransfer that allows the user to import CSV and XML formatted files into Venipedia The CSV format is very common and is supported by most operating systems and programs so we felt that this extension w
45. es 2001 2001 2002 2002 2003 2003 2004 2004 2005 2005 2006 2006 2007 2007 2008 01 01 07 01 01 01 07 01 0101 07 01 01 01 07 01 01 01 07 01 01 01 07 01 01 01 07 01 01 01 Figure 5 Graph of the article count for the English Wikipedia from January 10 2001 to September 9 2007 the date of the two millionth article 1 Cunningham 1995 ibid 18 Encyclopedia Britannica 2010 1 Giles 2005 Encyclopedia Britannica 2010 21 ibid ibid Wikipedia 2010 17 2 1 1 1 Wikipedia s Philosophy According to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales the encyclopedia format was chosen for the Wikipedia website because it is one that everyone is familiar with and therefore everyone has a clear idea of what an article should look like In this way collaboration would be easier because everyone would understand how to contribute Wikipedia is supported by a non profit organization the Wikimedia Foundation which gathers funds through reader donations corporate benefactors and the for profit company Wikia which provides hosting services All of the content on Wikipedia is generated edited rewritten corrected and managed by users There are no hard and fast rules for contribution to Wikipedia instead the site is governed by five principles known as the Five Pillars The Pillars are 1 Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia 2 Wikipedia has a neutral point of view 3 Wikipedia is free content 4 Wi
46. ete all of your data including infoboxes images maps and page contents should appear in Venipedia 1 Gotothe Special ImportCSV page in Venipedia Note You must have Administrator privileges to access this page and upload data 2 Click Browse and find the file that was saved from Notepad 3 Fillin the Summary of import Click the mport button If everything goes correctly a message indicating the number of pages that have been generated will appear For additional information see the MediaWiki page about the extension DataTransfer located at http www mediawiki org wiki Extension DataTransfer 72 Appendix F Look and Feel Coding To update the look and feel of Venipedia multiple changes to files on the server had to be made We ve documented those changes here Directory Path venipedia skins Vector php cn Db bi po A A A 5 aut inelli 5 date 11 4 10 454 reason to add Google Analytics 455 change added php line of code below gt 456 lt php include once analyticstracking php gt Venipedia Logo 522 lt CHANGE 523 author Tom Finelli 524 date 11 4 10 a reason needed to add Venipedia logo to the vector skin 320 change added the new div layer below containing the logo and text gt 521 lt div style margin top 1 5em background repeat no repeat background image url http venipedia org skins clean background top jpg height 155px gt lt div style
47. f 4 mistakes per entry in Wikipedia The results of this study led Nature to say that the accuracy of the two encyclopedias is comparable ibid 5 ibid 34 Giles 2005 ibid ibid ibid 19 2 1 1 2 Wikipedia s Structure There are two ways to access content on Wikipedia searching c for specific information or browsing more general topics Searching for specific content is performed using the search box located at the top Figure 9 The Wikipedia Search Bar of the web page It is also possible to browse the content of Wikipedia using the contents pages which provide lists or descriptions of information available as well as links to this information The two high level content page types are Portals and Categories 2 1 1 2 1 Portals and Categories Portals are a type of content page that are frequently used to see what kind of information is available within a broad topic A portal is an introductory page for a given topic It complements the main article of the subject by introducing the reader to key articles images and categories that further describe the subject Portals also help editors find related projects and things they can do to help Portal Arts From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Wikipedia portals Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Natural sciences People Philosophy Religion Society Technology The Arts Portal edit watch l Art is the expression of creativity or i
48. finding menus of nearby restaurants to playing the game Pac Man in real life by following a trail of projected dots The Layar technology is of special interest to this discussion because of its application in spreading data The recent update to version 4 0 allows for Pols to be linked to websites among other things which helps to unify the internet with reality in a way that can allow information to be spread to people as soon as they find something of interest to them For example someone walking past a new restaurant could use a layer to find the restaurant s menu and possibly reviews from other users Academic applications would include attaching historical notes to locations or comparing the state of the environment in a given location Bonsor 2001 Layar 2009 Ibid gt Layar n d 26 3 0 Methodology The goal of this project is to help anyone interested in the city of Venice by providing both information and data about the city through Venipedia and an augmented reality mobile application In order to accomplish this goal the team developed three objectives to meet the current need for information and data sharing 1 To prepare the Venipedia website for its public use and develop a maintenance plan for its continued growth 2 To experiment with data management and sharing to make the data collected by the Venice Project Center available to the public 3 To develop a smart phone application utilizing Ven
49. font size 120 font and makeup these structures chiefly serve two weight bold border ipx solid a3bfbi text main purposes to keep two distinct flows of traffic separated at intersections or to grant traffic the ability to cross an otherwise impassable barrier Venice or the City of Bridges certainly utilizes the traditional align left color 000 padding 0 2em purposes of bridges but without the incorporation of cars Due to Venice s unique water based 0 4em gt Featured Article PAGEs lt h2 gt n transportation system all the bridges within the city perform both of lt dpl gt 58 Maps Maps allows multiple map services including Google Maps to be embedded into wiki articles The VPC has a lot of geographical data so this extension is used on many pages Py Venezia gt SN 4 b Sestiere 9504 San Polo Y MultiUpload This extension simply allows for multiple files to be uploaded at once We initially thought this extension would allow us to batch upload 183 images of Convents but it turns out that it only allows 5 files at a time We felt this extension may still be useful for other uploads that aren t quite as large Nuke Nuke allows Administrators to delete multiple pages or uploads from a specific user at once This can come in handy when an error occurs during an import of a large amount of data It s also useful in reverting changes if a user vandalizes the site ParserFunctions P
50. forming arts by country Theatre Opera Dance Variety entertainment Chinese opera Figure 11 Categories within the Arts Portal different aspects of painting It is interesting to note that the subcategories are not exclusive One painting could be placed in both the Painting by Artist subcategory as well as the Paintings by Subject subcategory The categories are not meant to entirely separate articles from each other but rather to allow users to easily find the content that they are looking for Category Paintings From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia The main article for this category is Painting Subcategories This category has the following 14 subcategories out of 14 total e x Lists of works of art 56 P cone e Paintings by artist 147 C e Paintings by nationality 24 C Wikimedia Commons has media a related to Paintings M e Murals 2 C 65 P e Paintings by collection 37 C e Paintings by date 3 C e Paintings by movement or period 17 C e Paintings by subject 5 C e Paintings by theme 4 C S e Painting series 1 C 31 P F e Fresco paintings 3 C 50 P U E e x Unfinished paintings 8 P e x Lost paintings 9 P e Images of paintings 2 C 227 F Pages in category Paintings The following 4 pages are in this category out of 4 total This list may not reflect recent changes learn more Figure 12 The Paintings Category
51. g it when an update becomes available The other main need of Venipedia is moderation Someone needs to be found to receive administrator s privileges to work on Venipedia s maintenance and upkeep While we do not foresee any imminent problems there needs to be a system in place to deal with potential vandalism The best way for this to work is to introduce a moderator or several moderators and encourage the use of the vandalism maintenance tag The moderator s would simply have to check the list of pages with the tag on occasion and tag them with the protected status while corrections were made The rollback feature on each page s history would help greatly with the restoration process and protection could then be used to avoid future vandalism at least for a time The status can then later be removed ata moderator s discretion Additionally it may be beneficial to create a nonprofit Venipedia Foundation similar to Wikipedia s Wikimedia Foundation to take donations for the management and upkeep of the website At such a time as the foundation is created a Donate button could be added to the sidebar of the website for potential donors to read about how to help Venipedia financially and make contributions if interested 42 Bibliography Alexa Internet Inc Wikipedai org site info 2010 http www alexa com siteinfo wikipedia org accessed 10 5 10 Bizer C T Heath and T Berners Lee Linked Data the Story s
52. gCollectionMWServeURL http tools pediapress com mw serve SwgCollectionMWServeCert NULL SwgCollectionFormats array rl gt PDF SwgCollectionPortletFormats array PDF SwgCollectionHierarchyDelimiter NULL SwgCollectionArticleNamespaces array NS MAIN NS TALK NS USER NS USER TALK NS PROJECT NS PROJECT TALK NS FILE NS MEDIAWIKI NS MEDIAWIKI TALK SwgCollectionMaxArticles 500 SwgCollectionLicenseName NULL SwgCollectionLicenseURL NULL SwgEnableWriteAPI true SwgGroupPermissions user collectionsaveasuserpage true Added by Kevin on 12 09 2010 to allow for mass uploads via zip folders Not compatible with Mediawiki 1 16 Look into replacement require once SIP extensions SpecialMultiUploadViaZip php Added by Kevin on 12 10 2010 to allow for Audio and Video playback in pages Doesn t work on Bluehost no support for ffmpeg reguire SIP extensions OggHandler OggHandler php SwgFFmpegLocation usr bin ffmpeg Added by Kevin on 12 14 2010 to allow flash player to be embedded Solution to the lack of ffmpeg support require once extensions flashmp3 php Maps require once SIP extensions Maps Maps php API keys configuration SegGoogleMapsKey ABOIAAAA66EROnOZmSWczBOKuVxAjBRWTwqD8zFIOPK20PVKJ2 CG84uDhOhrpelHE3LawlOrNIiTgigPTR2q w Your Google Maps API key Required for displaying Google Maps and using the Google Geocoder serv
53. gate across data rather than articles like a Navbox but provide a concise summary like Infoboxes Further information on the various boxes can be found in the appendices We ve also improved Venipedia s maps allowing them to be utilized in three ways First they can be generated in the Venipedia page by entering co ordinates Alternatively a user can choose to link to Google Maps kml code to allow for the use of live maps Finally maps can be generated by the Semantic MediaWiki extension by querying a category for all pages with co ordinates so that the map is automatically updated with the addition of new articles and reflects changes accurately All three maps allow for linking to other Venipedia pages but the semantic map is the most customizable 4 1 2 Content In addition to working on Venipedia s look and feel we made changes to the site s content We ve weeded out several articles which were irrelevant and created several example articles In addition the students working on other teams were each assigned two articles to produce over the course of the two terms of the project In this way the other teams have been responsible for the bulk of the content generation While they received the articles as an assignment rather than taking them on as areas of personal interest quite a few of their go into great detail and help to cement Venipedia s status as a useful resource However the process of assigning articles to peop
54. grated into the page because sca a they are relevant to that specific article EE rmm se E presented through the tabs as layers in Figure 23 Venipedia s original skin addition to the main article The other options from the old drop down menu have been moved to the left hand sidebar where they are visually distinct as part of the site s functions and not those of the page Figure 22 Item 2 As a result the overall look of Venipedia is cleaner and offers familiarity while remaining unique We also added a number of features as described in the Methodology section Infoboxes Figure 22 Item 4 Navboxes Figure 22 Item 6 and Factboxes all help users find information and data more easily Infoboxes allow information which is ipedia na E UAA WA IRA EE Lll expected to be present across several articles on a Maio psoe AE us topic to be found at a glance For example the Wheat is Venipedia Verme infobox for organizations provides a location of the LL SADMAN o GIU eb Nas e MES K AE SIA Do a beue wa LO RN ONLUS group s O ffice an d C ont a ct inform ation ri ght at th e m ot Lm top of the page to make them easier for interested parties to contact Navboxes sit at the bottom of ii TEJ articles and allow users to easily navigate across Figure 24 Venipedia s New Skin 35 categories Factboxes operate as a data based fusion of the two They are fed into by a page s semantic tags and allow users to navi
55. hat the current template refers to other templates which don t exist in Venipedia since the code was copied from Wikipedia 9 Parse through the document and pick out the red links that seem to be required for the actual structure of the infobox There will be many unnecessary red links that are Wikipedia exclusive which is why the mport and Export feature is not desirable in this situation 10 Repeat steps 2 5 for each red link that is dependent upon the structure for infoboxes 11 Troubleshoot It will take time and patience to figure out which red links are required Refer to Wikipedia s help page on infoboxes http en wikipedia org wiki Help Infoboxes if necessary 46 Creating an Infobox Refer to the Template Infobox page in Venipedia It has detailed instructions on how to create an infobox Also refer other premade infoboxes such as Template Infobox Convent Template Infobox Church and Template Infobox Artist for the formatting of both the template page and the documentation subpage To give a brief explanation A M Go to http venipedia org index php title Template Infobox Scroll to the bottom of the page and copy the generalized infobox code from the heading Full blank syntax Create a page titled Template Infobox Foo where Foo is the unique name of your infobox Paste the code into the page and fill out the header label and data fields Save the page Be sure to create the documentation subpage doc for
56. he article s Factbox which is at the bottom of each page and allows users to search for other 38 articles with the same value in a given property Facts about Chiesa di Santo Stefano af Active Church false Admission Price 2 5 Open to the Public true Relics Body of Saint Stephen Figure 28 The factbox for Chiesa di Santo Stefano Furthermore these factboxes and properties can be applied to files not just articles We configured the Semantic MediaWiki extension to work on both the Main and File namespaces as an alternative to the CKAN protocol used by websites like Data gov and Data gov uk The use of SMW allows us to minimize dependence on outside technologies by utilizing just the one tool and hosting the data ourselves rather than placing it on an external site Functionally the two methods are the same for human users in that files are deposited tagged and rendered searchable through RDF vocabularies These semantic functions are being put to use in the content of pages as well Using co ordinate properties we can generate maps such as one for the churches of Venice We have also used it as a way to manage the mass uploading of articles and images by ensuring that they have the same name and using calls such as Image PAGENAME jpg to embed the pictures in the related infoboxes This call works by finding a jpg file which shares its name with the page in question 4 3 Layar The other way we ve worked to improve a
57. he situation A design by the aptly named architect Antonio da Ponte was finally accepted and construction on the new bridge began in 1588 completed in 1591 This bridge still stands today The old timber Ponte di Rialto built in 53 1255 Ironically there was a great deal of debate and criticism aimed at the new bridge The engineering was considered so audacious that many of Antonio da Ponte s contemporaries predicted that the bridge would collapse into ruin Despite these early criticisms the bridge has stood strong and has developed into an architectural icon of Venice Architecture Antonio da Ponte s bridge features a single arch made completely from Istrian marble yet the bridge is remarkably similar to the previous timber bridge Two inclined ramps rise above the canal meeting at central platform with rows of shops along the edges These shops help make the bridge unique and instantly recognizable The bridge is 22 90 meters wide with a central walkway flanked by the two rows of shops as well as two slightly more narrow walkways along the edges Besides being an important method of crossing the Grand Canal the Ponte di Rialto is a major tourist attraction People flock from around the world to enjoy the views the bridge offers of the canal and to browse the small shops on it The Rialto area is considered the heart of the city of Venice with the Ponte di Rialto being its main artery 5 The Ponte di Rialto lit at night
58. hese articles belonged to the side project known as the Wikimecum a collection of how to articles for and by WPI students The Wikimecum exists as a separate namespace within Venipedia but will eventually be moved out to the website Venice2point0 org Venipedia differs from Wikipedia both in its hyper local focus and its inclusion of unique data gathered by contributors in the field Wikipedia discourages users from adding their own independent research to ensure that all information can be attributed to other published sources Venipedia as a repository of WPI projects and with a goal of including relevant data for others to research the city encourages the contribution of data and research files There are other examples of hyper local wikis as well such as sites for Las Vegas and Seattle While Venipedia is similarly focused on a small specific region it is intended as an academic resource focusing on the city s culture heritage natural and urban features The more prevalent trend amongst hyper local wikis is to recommend stores and restaurants to visitors which is not within Venipedia s scope There exists a similar wiki for the city of Venice but as it is commercially focused there exists the more historically focused gap which Venipedia aims to fill 23 2 2 Data Management The Venice Project Center VPC has large amounts of information and data from previous projects completed by students in Venice Currently nothing has been
59. ic Art at the theatre In the early decades of the 20th century Tree produced spectacular productions of Shakespeare and other classical works and the z i m Featured music edit watch theatre hosted premi res by major playwrights such as George Bernard Shaw J M Figure 10 Wikipedia s Arts Portal 38 Wikipedia 2010 ibid ibid 141 improve Wikipedia Below you will see the arts portal from Wikipedia it gives a brief description of the general topic as well as a featured article from within the portal Within this portal there are categories that further separate and organize the content The arts portal is divided into the following categories some of which are broken down further into subcategories While most categories contain subcategories they also contain individual pages Below is the Paintings category from the arts portal contains subcategories relating to Categories edit watch Arts Arts by country Genres by country Literature by language by nationality Poetry Drama Novels Essays Comics Visual arts by region by nationality Artist groups and collectives Aesthetics Architecture Ceramics Comics Drawing Film Graphic design Industrial design Landscape architecture Painting Photography Printmaking Sculpture Textile arts Typography Music by continent by nationality Classical Popular Folk Jazz Reggae Rock Category Fringe Music Per
60. ices Semantic Maps CHANGE added by Tom on 11 16 10 require once SIP extensions SemanticMaps SemanticMaps php require once extensions RawMsg php require once SIP extensions MultiUpload MultiUpload php include extensions SecureHTML php Change added by Tom on 11 17 10 to allow DataTransfer extension include once SIP extensions DataTransfer DataTransfer php Change added by Kevin 11 17 2010 enabling HTML Tidy for navboxes to display properly SwgUseTidy true Change added by Tom on 11 30 10 for WYSIWYG FCKeditor extension GUI toolbar require once SIP extensions FCKeditor FCKeditor php commnented out on 11730710 b c it was too buggy for public use replaced with WikiEditor extension Change added by Tom on 11 30 10 for WikiEditor extension toolbar GUI require onee 5IP extensdons Usabilitylunitiative WikibditorZWLkibdictor php SwgDefaultUserOptions usebetatoolbar cgd 1 Default user preference to use toolbar dialogs SwgWikiEditorModules toolbar global true Enable the WikiEditor toolbar for everyone require once SIP extensrions Usabril tyInitlatiye Vector Vector php include once SIP extensions SemanticCompoundQueries SemanticCompoundQueries php require once SIP extensions Nuke SpecialNuke php require once SIP extensions SemanticResultFormats SemanticResultFormats php SsrfgFormats gallery include once SIP extensions SemanticDrilldown Sema
61. iki Extension Call die SC Ae Allows a user to create footnotes DataTransfer 0 3 6 July 1 11 or An extension that allows for importing and exporting the contents of a wiki s pages in 2010 greater XML and CSV form http www mediawiki org wiki Extension DataTransfer DynamicPageList 1 8 9 2009 1 7 1 16 Create lists of other articles based on their category namespace title references or 10 01 template usage and include contents or arguments of template calls of those articles into a page Www mediawiki org wiki Add predefined HTML forms to wiki pages http www mediawiki org wiki Extension InputBox lo LI t15 or Allows users to display maps and coordinate data using multiple mapping services higher http www mediawiki org wiki Extension Maps MultiUpload 2 0 9th of 1 16 Allows users to upload more than one file at a time November iawiki iki Extension MultiUpload DX Nuke 1 11 Gives sysops the ability to mass delete pages verified under http www mediawiki org wiki Extension Nuke 1 16 beta cones NA m http www mediawiki org wiki Extension OggHandler bi RO a E Ee parser with logical functions www mediawiki org wiki Extension ParserFunctions 1 0 2007 1 11 0 Just in time graph generation 61 i Extension Ploticus Script extension which manages the including of common JS script libraries require for SMWHalo http smwforum ontoprise com smwforum index php Help Script Manager extension Semantic d
62. imecum as mentioned before is a WPI resource for students studying in Venice and the visits from that are most likely from the other students abroad in B term 2010 as well as some of the potential students for the 2011 term Venice list flood has a 100 Bounce rate meaning that all users who entered through that term left after viewing one page specifically the page detailing The Ten Worst Floods in Venetian History The bounce rate and low average visit time implies that this subject could be expanded upon in the future to be more useful Propel a gondola leads to the Gondola entry and also has a high bounce rate 91 6796 and low average visit time which also suggests that that article needs work as well Archaeological Sites in Venice accounted for only about 196 and is related to an ongoing project 4 2 Data Management With regards to data management we added the Semantic MediaWiki extension to Venipedia so that articles can be related to each other via the Semantic Web which was explained in the background The Semantic MediaWiki uses tags within the article of the format Property Value where Property is a defined characteristic of several items and Value is the specific characteristic of the article s subject For example each church has an Active Church property which refers to whether or not Mass is said there For the specific church Chiesa di Santo Stefano this value is false It appears as such in t
63. ing pages of Venipedia like special pages and the print function giving users easy access the pages that were hard to find in the old skin This new skin also gives easier access to the page history for all pages not just the front page In addition to modifying the skin of the front page we also modified the content The broken and useless links were removed to clean up the appearance of the front page The random article feature was modified Frequently the random article would be formatted poorly or it would not display correctly in the random article box This was a major problem because it gave users a very poor impression of the website from the get go As a result we changed the random 27 article element on the front page to a featured article element An article is still randomly selected and displayed on the front page but instead of being selected from the entire article pool it is selected from a group of articles that are of high quality and are formatted to show up correctly on the front page We also modified the description on the main page to more accurately reflect the new mission of Venipedia as an English language resource about the city of Venice for a wide range of people wiki menu recent changes random page venice 2 0 Main page Main Page i Ven ipedia RAM UA SEN EXT PAR Resa emt e Institutions Rand e Economy and Tour Urban mamie Welcome to Venipedia e Public an A free online resource all a
64. ipedia for an augmented reality experience in Venice 3 1 Preparing Venipedia for Public Use As it stood in August 2010 the Venipedia website was an ineffective tool for information and data sharing because the website was confusing for people unfamiliar with the project center and there was not data available on the site In order to make the website useful for a broad range of users we implemented a series of improvements designed to facilitate the use of Venipedia by streamlining the look and feel of the site organizing the structure of the site standardizing page features and clarifying the editorial process 3 1 1 Improving the Look and Feel Venipedia s main page was confusing The menu was hard to follow the color scheme was not uniform and there were a lot of non functional elements and links on the main page Our first order of business was to change this which we primarily accomplished by changing the skin of Venipedia We updated it to the skin that Wikipedia currently uses with a few modifications to personalize it We made this decision for several reasons but mainly because most people are familiar with the Wikipedia skin and it will take them less time to feel comfortable with Venipedia The new skin is more streamlined and there are lots of advantageous features on the main page alone The search bar is more detailed and the menu presents all of the features of the old menu as well some new ones The new menu displays the work
65. it for their own programming websites UPEDIA COM From 1995 to 2000 more and more wiki oa di A ENCYCLOPEDIA A sa C websites appeared on the internet 7 as ey Figure 7 Nupedia logo E 1 17 M 8 covering a wide range of topics In i lt C 2001 Jimmy Wales released Wikipedia which has become the most well known 8 b SE and widely used wiki on the internet It has been referred to as a Darwinian aT 438 encyclopedia because it steadily improves as articles are rewritten or deleted 3 2 75 Wales started an encyclopedia called Nupedia in March of 2000 which was A established as a free online encyclopedia created by an advisory board of WV IKIPEDIA experts that completed a lengthy review process for each article This was not The Free Encyclopedia T Figure 8 Wikipedia logo working as an effective review process and Wales created Wikipedia as part of E i E Nupedia as an alternative for generating entries Eventually Wikipedia was released as a separate website and surpassed Nupedia in article content resulting in Nupedia being taken offline in 2003 In the first year that Wikipedia was online it grew to include 20 000 articles in 18 languages By March 2006 there were 1 million articles in Wikipedia and by Number of Articles September 2007 there were nile 2 million articles As of e October 2010 there are over 16 million articles in Number of Articles 3 8 8 8 240 languag
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67. kipedians Editors of Wikipedia should interact in a respectful and civil manner and 5 Wikipedia does not have firm rules Figure6Five Along with these Five Pillars there are two more principles that are used to govern dii Wikipedia One is the definition of what Wikipedia is not consisting of a long list clarifying that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and is therefore not a forum for original research or indiscriminate data This means that contributions to Wikipedia should be about topics that are considered valid and notable by several outside sources and that these contributions should be relevant for a general audience The other guiding principle is that if a rule prevents the improvement or maintenance of Wikipedia that rule should be ignored The goal of Wikipedia is to produce an unbiased encyclopedia for public use and nothing not even the rules of Wikipedia can be allowed to get in the way of that Beneath these principles are general policies and guidelines created by Wikipedia contributors to help other users to generate and edit entries These policies and guidelines fall into two major categories content standards and guidelines for interacting with other users The ideals of Wikipedia are admirable but there are some disadvantages to creating an encyclopedia in this format Everyone with internet access is capable of changing the content of Wikipedia and not everyone follows the guideline relating to presenting accur
68. le in research Thanks to its growth and evolution the modern internet is home to many different methods of sharing information and data Its development from academic novelty to household tool has led to its expansion from terminals to mobile devices further cementing its role in the daily lives of many The following chapter represents an analysis of various trends related to the growth of the web wikis data sharing and mobile applications 3 The World Wide Web Past Present and Future n d W3C 1990 gt Ibid Wolfram Alpha n d 15 sa E 7 nis using a simplified markup language al nij dictionary in 2007 because of the influence that the word had gathered In 1995 Ward 1 b 1 M The Oxford English Dictionary OED defines a wiki as A type of web x ANS ai page designed so that its content can be edited by anyone who accesses it wi The term officially entered the pum ELIT PA n P Cunningham created the first wiki Figure 5 WikiWikiWeb using the WikiWikiWeb machinery symbol that he developed The goal of this first wiki was to provide programmers with a way to document changes in programming Cunningham wanted to create the simplest database that would function and facilitate the exchange of Figure 6 WikiWiki shuttle at the Honolulu ideas between programmers This prompted the selection of airport that served as inspiration for Wiki wiki as the name of the website as it means qui
69. le is somewhat counter intuitive given the open spirit of wikis which rely on the edits of many to achieve population and quality The assignment makes more sense when viewed not as the creation of comprehensive complete articles but as starting points for future editors to embellish and expand We reviewed the articles at various points throughout the term employing two day long meeting sessions where the other teams could come to us for help with technical details like the wiki syntax as well as questions of structure and content While the article assignment has generated a significant amount of content and our direct involvement has helped to make the articles high quality the nature of the articles as assigned work in addition to each team s project may have lead to some lost care and dedication Sadly not all of the pre existing articles were able to be brought up to standard within the span of this project Early in the project we moved a large number of articles to the new UnderConstruction namespace and added maintenance tags to them to specify what work needed to be done Due to time constraints and our emphasis on Venipedia s structure over content we were unable to finish editing all of the articles We have moved them back to the main namespace leaving the tags in place so that future editors will have an idea of how to improve them Those articles which are not the best they can be according to the standard outlined in our meth
70. lly the features of an article are also significant because often ideas and information cannot be effectively conveyed with words alone As the articles we sorted articles based on their quality we also sorted them based on their topic We sorted the articles into categories of common topics for example art architecture history environment etc This process of sorting was important because it allows users to see related articles by looking at a specific category After these categories were created we were also able to create portals We set up five portals within Venipedia that correspond with broad topics that are of high interest to people studying the city of Venice These portals allows users to look up a general topic in Venipedia and browse all of the content related to that topic in large number of categories rather than one category at a time 3 1 3 Adding Page Features In order to provide users with an engaging experience A self portrait of Tintoretto we added several templates for useful page features Info Artist boxes provide structured data in a clear and succinct way at the ame Jacopo Comin beginning of an article allowing readers to see the most Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto important features at a quick glance We created a series of Born September 29 1518 seven info box templates for a variety of article types such as Venice Republic of Venice artists biography canals churches convents
71. magination The word art comes from the Latin word ars artis which means skill craft art Art is commonly Shortcuts Pa Sl understood as the act of making works or artworks which use the human creative impulse and which have meaning beyond simple description P A IVI 5 While art is often distinguished from crafts and recreational hobby activities this boundary can at times be hard to define The term creative arts P ARTS t INR 4 denotes a collection of disciplines whose principal purpose is the output of material for the viewer or audience to interpret As such art may be taken to include forms ranging from literary forms prose writing and poetry performance based forms dance acting drama and music visual and plastic arts painting sculpture photography illustration to forms that also have a functional role such as architecture and fashion design Art may also be understood as relating to creativity aesthetics and the generation of emotion Read more Featured article edit watch Selected quote edit watch N I are Her Majesty s Theatre is a West End theatre located in the You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it E Haymarket in the City of Westminster The present building was nothing but your eye EE designed by Charles J Phipps and was constructed in 1897 for actor Walter Pitkin Art of Rapid Reading 1929 manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree who established the Royal Academy of Dramat
72. mmary The city of Venice has existed for over a thousand years and for much of that time it has remained essentially unchanged in many ways creating a unique city in our modern world The ancient infrastructure of Venice faces challenges in the current social atmosphere and environmental situation A wide range of organizations have studied and worked to preserve the city of Venice Students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute have been looking for solutions to its problems for the past twenty vears through the Venice Project Center The projects of these students cover a wide range of topics including the preservation of public art the impact of tourists on the city the change in canal water flow over the years and the collection of information about all types of historic buildings An enormous amount of data has been collected by these organizations yet this useful data is currently inaccessible to the general public This data is unavailable because it is held by private organizations or is in Italian This project seeks to provide a resource containing both information and data about the city of Venice to the English speaking public As part of the VPC s 20 anniversary celebration Venipedia a wiki based online encyclopedia was created to showcase the data collected by the VPC Currently 24 of the global population uses the internet making it a driving force of information sharing in our society Because of the role that it plays the
73. most templated pages lists In this way they will complete the culture requirement of ID 2050 while cutting down on Venipedia s red links and improving the quality of existing articles Further their being allowed to choose which subjects to write about from a group broader than just their project fits well with the wiki model of editors writing about their passions Additionally series of articles on relevant topics can be generated from teams reports using their background research and project data These articles can be generated from old reports this year s projects and projects still to come For the addition of new infoboxes navboxes and maintenance tags users should be able to make new ones from the existing templates and information found in the User Guide Thanks to the use of wiki syntax users of other wikis can easily adapt their knowledge to Venipedia s constructs A list of the existing boxes and templates can be found in the appendices The most likely future additions are infoboxes for more topics as navboxes are not necessary for every topic and the maintenance tags cover a wide variety of issues already One feature worth looking into is multimedia Because Bluehost doesn t support ffmpeg playback we were unable to adapt Wikipedia s multimedia player template Additionally we were unable to successfully install Flash player due to security risks inherent in the proposed Mediawiki extensions As a result there is
74. mplemented and designed three structured features e Infoboxes which provide data e Navboxes which provide a method to navigate articles of a similar topic e Maintenance tags which indicate that the wiki article needs work Infoboxes The purpose of infoboxes is to convey structured information and data to the user in a standard manner Infoboxes are created and handled through the use of MediaWiki s Template system We have implemented the structure of infoboxes by using Wikipedia s Infobox templates as a model In all we created 9 infoboxes These can be found at the following location http venipedia org index php title Categorv Infobox templates Implementation We ve developed a brief procedure describing how we added the infobox feature in Venipedia This should not have to be done again unless something unexpected happens to the infobox feature Requirement Documentation templates from Wikipedia Go to http en wikipedia org wiki Template Infobox Click View Source at the top right of the page Copy the code Make a page in Venipedia titled Template Infobox Paste the code into the page and save the page pr de n wt ap The documentation subpage should also be included so go to http en wikipedia org wiki Template Infobox doc Ss And repeat steps 2 5 except replace Template Infobox with Template Infobox doc 8 Goto the Template Infobox page in Venipedia There will most likely be many red links present This means t
75. n in addition to the other changes Included is a page from Venipedia with the various changes highlighted 33 Main page Community portal Current events Recent changes Random page Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Upload multiple files Browse properties b Print export amp Kscannell Mytalk My preferences My watchlist My contributions Logout 3 3 i ce vero Ponte di Rialto The Ponte di Rialto is the oldest of the four Bridges Over The Grand Canal and undoubtably the best known Located at the heart of the city on the Grand Canal s most dramatic bend the Ponte di Rialto is considered one of the major landmarks that make Venice unique Ponte di Rialto Contents hide 1 History 2 Architecture 3 The Bridge Today 4Map 5 See Also 6 External Links 7 References Bridge Information 1588 1591 Antonio da Ponte History Stone arch bridge For centuries the only method of crossing the canals of Venice was either by boat or wooden planks laid over the canals The Grand Canal offered a unique obstacle with its width being far too great for the latter option Istrian marble Di The first structure to allow pedestrians dry passage over the Grand Canal was a wooden pontoon bridge designed by Nicolo Barattieri built in 1181 The bridge was named the Ponte della Moneta after the monetary mint which stood at its eastern entrance
76. ncoding to UTF 8 which is a common web encoding format Open the recently saved file in Notepad File gt gt Save As gt gt click Encoding box gt gt select UTF 8 7 Namethe file something different Uploading and Importing Images We have developed a procedure for uploading and importing a large number of images to supplement the imported data Uploading Images to the Server If the images aren t already on the server you must first upload them If they are on the server then you can skip the Uploading Images to the Server procedure 71 1 Open an SFTP FTP program such as WinSCP Log in to the Venipedia host using proper credentials Create a new folder somewhere on the server for the images We suggest navigating to SHOME public html venipedia and adding a new folder there Importing Images into Venipedia 1 Open a SSH terminal emulator such as PuTTY 2 Login to the Venipedia host using proper credentials 3 Navigate to SHOME public html venipedia maintenance by typing cd public html venipedia maintenance into the command prompt 4 Type php importimages php SHOME Location Of Your Directory into the command prompt a If you want to add a category to the images which is required for semantically querying more than one image per page type php importlmages php SHOME Location Of Your Directory comment Category Data Images Importing Data This is the final step in the data import process Once this step is compl
77. nd them read them and follow them a The instructions will most likely ask you to add a line of code similar to the following include_once SIP extensions ExtensionFolder ExtensionName php to LocalSettings php In order to do this you must have the host information b Once you have the information to login navigate to the root of Venipedia s installation venipedia c You should see LocalSettings php within this folder Open it and find the Extensions section Paste the code in and save the file e Follow any additional instructions that are unique to whichever extension you re installing 57 Use and Justification for Extensions Cite This extension gives a specific syntax on citing references within wiki articles It displays the references in a clean and concise format The extension also allows the user to toggle between the spot in the article where the reference is cited and the reference information References t Fincantieri Company Page l http www fincantieri it cms data pages 000039 as px ir MS Noordam Setting Sail from Porto Marghera l http www vdleek nl Hal Vlaot Moorda 1 2 3 19031 Vista Cruise Ships A New Class of Cruise Ships amp http ezinearticles com Vi 4 t MS Queen Victoria amp http en wikipedia org wiki MS Queen Victoria amp 5 _ 12221 Vista Class Cruise Ship B http en wikipedia org wiki Vista class cruise ship Figure 31 When a reference is clicked in th
78. nticDrilldown php 64 Appendix D Semantic Extensions We have installed multiple semantic extensions for use with Venipedia The core extension is called Semantic Media Wiki SMW It allows for data to be directly entered tagged and searched all within the same website There are 3 additional semantic extensions that we installed to go with SMW e Semantic Maps allows for geographical data to be semantically queried and displayed e Semantic Compound Queries allows for multiple queries to be made e Semantic Result Formats allows for different semantic output formats The combination of these 4 extensions makes managing and publicizing VPC data possible Semantic MediaWiki Semantic MediaWiki SMW is a type of semantic extension that allows for data to be input tagged and queried within Venipedia With the installation of SMW it s possible for e Students to use Venipedia to enter their data e The public to view and contribute data and information Process Overview We will provide a brief overview describing the process of entering tagging and searching for data in Venipedia To understand how SMW works we highly recommend you read the User Manual written by the SMW Developers The user manual can be found online on SMW s website Again we recommend visiting their website as your primary resource as it will always have the most updated information http semantic mediawiki org wiki Help User manual A
79. nvento di S Francesco de la Vigna onvents of Castello Convento di S Giovanni e Paolo Convento di S Giovanni in Laterano Convento di S Giovanni in Malta Convento di S Giustina Convento di S Isepio Convento di S Lorenzo Convento di S Pietro Convento di S Zaccaria Convento di S M del Pianto c ts of D Convento delle Eremitane Convento di Catecumeni Convento di Gesuati Convento di Ognisanti Convento di S Gregorio Convento di S Maria de la Carita onvents of Dorsoduro Convento di S Maria del Carmine Convento di S Maria della Visitazione Convento di S Sebastiano Convento di S Teresa Convento di Spirito Santo Convents of San Marco Convento di S Maria del Giglio Convento di S Maurizio Convento di S Teodoro Convento di S Salvador Convento di S Stefano Convents of San Polo Convento di Frari Convents of Santa Croce Convento di S Chiara Convento di S Maria Maggiore Convento di S Nicola da Tolentino Convento della Croce Convento della SS Trinit Convento di Convento di convertite Convento di Redentore Convento di S Cosmo Convento di S Giorgio Maggiore Convents of Giudecca Convento di S Maria della Presentazione Figure 21 Convents Nav Box 3 1 4 Creating User Guide In order to facilitate meaningful user contribution to Venipedia we developed a set of user guidelines There are three main sections contained within the user guidelines the mission of the website the s
80. o aa Convento di S Maria del Giglio Convento di S Maurizio Convento di S Teodoro Convento di S Salvador Convento di S Stefano Convents of San Polo Convento di Frari Convents of Santa Croce Convento di S Chiara Convento di S Maria Maggiore Convento di S Nicola da Tolentino Convento della Croce Convento della SS Trinit Convento di Convento di convertite Convento di Redentore Convents of Giudecca l Convento di S Cosmo Convento di S Giorgio Maggiore Convento di S Maria della Presentazione Islands Islands of the Venetian Lagoon Burano Cavallino La Certosa Chioggia Giudecca Lido Pellestrina Mazzorbo Murano Sacca Fisola Sacca Sessola San Clemente San Francesco del Deserto San Giorgio Maggiore San Lazzaro degli Armeni Santa Maria della Grazia San Michele San Pietro di Castello San Servolo Sant Elena Sant Erasmo Santa Cristina Sottomarina Torcello Tronchetto Vignole Buel del Lovo Certosa La Cura Lazzaretto Nuovo Lazzaretto Vecchio Madonna del Monte Poveglia Saline Abandoned islands San Andrea San Angelo della Polvere San Arian San Giacomo in Paludo San Giorgio in Alga San Secondo San Tommaso Borgognoni Santo Spirito Palaces Palaces Ca Adoklo Ca Ariani Ca Avon Ca Balbi Ca Bembo Ca Benedetti Ca Bernardi Ca Bernardo Ca Bonvicini Ca Brandolin Ca Caotorta Ca Cappellis Ca Cappello Ca Cavagnis Ca Cavanis
81. o Far International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems 5 no 3 2009 1 22 Bottemiller Helena Food Safety News Government Launches Product Safety Mobile App July 10 2010 http www foodsafetynews com 2010 07 government launches product safety mobile app accessed October 10 2010 Chris Bizer Richard Cyganiak Tom Heath How to Publish Linked Data on the Web http www4 wiwiss fu berlin de bizer pub LinkedDataTutorial 20070727 accessed October 2010 Cunningham W Wiki History march 25 1995 http c2 com cgi wiki WikiHistory accessed 10 1 10 Data gov FAQ http www data gov fag accessed October 2010 Data gov Semantic Web http www data gov semantic index accessed October 2010 Data gov http www data gov accessed October 2010 DBpedia About http dbpedia org About accessed October 2010 DSpace DSpace Registry http www dspace org whos using dspace instnameasc 19 html accessed October 2010 DSpace Manual http www dspace org 1 6 2Documentation DSpace Manual pdf accessed October 2010 Giles J Internet encyclopedias go head to head Nature 438 2005 900 901 http www nature com nature journal v438 n7070 full 438900a html accessed October 5 2010 Haines L Wiki elevated to Oxford English Dictionary March 16 2007 http www theregister co uk 2007 03 16 wiki oed accessed 10 1 10 Institution Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti nstitu
82. odology have been marked with Maintenance Tags so that future editors and contributors know what needs to be done New articles were also generated semantically through database uploads We uploaded the data of all of Venice s convents to create articles which utilize the Semantic MediaWiki features like factboxes and maps and the PreserVenice team used the same process to upload their public art catalog creating a basis for future editors to write about individual pieces or broader topics like their styles 36 4 1 3 Analytics Export y CJ Email SG Add to Dashboard Advanced Segments 3 segments v Visitors Overview Nov 9 2010 Dec 9 2010 sitors e Returning Visitors AN pa 7 Visits m Aji Visits 9 New V one Se gt sn ne gs pg x Oe pt e ES ao a P ai UTE NM Nov 22 C O ng Seni No ee e cali Mia PS This site received 1 572 visits in the All Visits segment Figure 25 The number of daily visitors to Venipedia between 11 09 2010 and 12 09 2010 With regards to site use we used Google Analytics to track the number of visitors as seen in Figure 2537 Overall we ve had an average of 54 visits per day While this is modest in comparison to the 200 million or more daily visitors to Wikipedia it s not bad for a small website which has received next to no publicity Additionally the number of new visitors has consistently outperformed returning visitors meaning tha
83. ould be worthwhile to implement In order to accomplish this we converted Microsoft Database files into CSV format using Microsoft Access We then had to format the data so that the extension would understand where all the data should be placed within the wiki article We ve devised a procedure describing how we accomplished this so that more data can be imported by future students We hope that this will be a major breakthrough in centralizing a location for VPC data Note This guide assumes the reader has prior knowledge of designing Infoboxes and the functions of all four of the installed semantic extensions Semantic MediaWiki Semantic Maps Semantic Result Formats and Semantic Compound Queries lf you don t understand these concepts please refer to the Help Infobox article in Venipedia and Appendix D Semantic Extensions located in this report Verifying the Installation of DataTransfer The first step is to install the DataTransfer extension The Venipedia team has already installed the extension so this step should not be necessary unless someone tampers with the currently installed extensions To verify that the extension is installed go to the page Special Version in Venipedia and make sure that DataTransfer is listed If for some reason it is not listed then search for the extension on the MediaWiki website and follow the installation directions there Defining Templates DataTransfer takes advantage of and relies on MediaWiki s
84. padding 2em gt lt a href index php title Main Page style text shadow EEEEEE 2px px 3px font weight bold font size 450 color F920000 text decoration none Venipediac a p style margin 0 5em 0 0 em text shadow CCCCCC 2px px 3px Ihe free encyclopedia of Venice Italy lt p gt lt div gt lt div gt F py J 73 Book Logo 4 lt logo gt lt CHANGE author Tom Finelli date 11 4 10 reason hide logo change added style display none below gt div id p logo style display none gt lt a style background image url lt php this text logopath gt href php echo htmlspecialchara this gt data nav urls mainpage href 7 gt lt php echo s this gt skin gt tooltipAndAccesskey p logo 2 a div lt flogo gt 568 lt CHANGE 569 author Tom Finelli 570 date 11 10 10 571 reason added Venice2Point and WPI logos 572 change see the following two lines cf code 573 35 eT Him un lixa href http venice point0 0rg lt img src skins comnon images venice logo png alt Venice 2 0 gt a gt lt 1i gt lt li lt a href http wpi edu img src akins common images wpi logo png alt WPI gt lt a gt lt 1i gt a r3 4 i r3 i I nm n LE ja lt php if this data poweredbyico gt li id focoter icon poweredby c php this g
85. pear in the main namespace with no prefix Source http en wikipedia org wiki Help Namespace Categories are a software feature of MediaWiki which enables pages to be added to automatic listings These help structure a project such as Wikipedia by grouping together pages on similar subjects Source http en wikipedia org wiki Help Categor Templates are pages created explicitly for transclusion the process of including the contents of one page within another page Any page can be transcluded but templates are designed specifically for that purpose usually for repetitive material that might need to show up on any number of articles or pages They are commonly used for boilerplate messages standard warnings or notices infoboxes navigational boxes and similar Source http en wikipedia org wiki Help Templates Infoboxes are fixed format tables designed to be added to the top right hand corner of articles to consistently present a summary of some unifying aspect that the articles share and to improve navigation to other interrelated articles Source http en wikipedia org wiki Help Infoboxes Navboxes navigation templates or topicboxes are a grouping of links used in multiple related articles to facilitate navigation between those articles Editing of a navigation template is done in a central place the template page Source http en wikipedia org wiki Help Navbox 45 Appendix B Structuring Venipedia To improve Venipedia we ve i
86. pedia at the following URL http venipedia org index php title Venipedia Templates Delete Red Pages with these tags are candidates for deletion for violating Venipedia s principles Move Purple Pages with these tags need to be moved to another namespace or merged into other articles Content Orange The content of these pages needs attention usually to be more encyclopedic Style Yellow These pages need structural changes Notice Blue Something about these pages needs to be brought to the reader s attention Protection Silver These pages are currently protected or under watch by a moderator l Figure 30 Types of maintenance tags Source http List of Current Maintenance Tags Delete Venice i i There is very little or nothing on this page about how the topic relates to Venice Please help make it relevant to Venipedia Copypaste This page appears to have been laregly copied and pasted from other sources Please fix the article immediately by removing all direct quotes that are not properly cited Nonfree C a E n E ar This page may contain copyrighted material that is used excessively improperly or that is not cited properly Please fix the article by removing copyrighted material or by inserting proper references 53 Move Namespace X page seems to be in the wrong namespace Please consider moving it to somewhere more appropriate Con
87. re history environment etc This process of sorting was important because it allows users to see related articles by looking at a specific category After these categories were created we were also able to create portals These portals allows users to look up a general topic in Venipedia and browse all of the content related to that topic in large number of categories rather than one category at a time In order to provide users with an engaging experience we added several templates for useful page features Info boxes provide structured data in a clear and succinct way at the beginning of an article allowing readers to see the most important features at a quick glance In addition the info boxes we created nav boxes for several categories in Venipedia These nav boxes are helpful because they allow users to see the content of a category at the bottom of an article in that category In order to facilitate meaningful user contribution to Venipedia we developed a set of user guidelines There are three main sections contained within the user guidelines the mission of the website the structure of a typical article and syntax guidelines The first part of the user guide discusses the mission of Venipedia We wanted to make the purpose and philosophy of the website very clear to users The second part of the user guide is an article showing the general structure that a Venipedia article should have The article in the user guide follows the
88. s If you re unfamiliar with these concepts review the User manual on the Semantic Map extension website located at http mapping referata com wiki Help User manual Pay particular attention to the section on querying semantic map data located at http mapping referata com wiki Help Queries Additionally the following pages in Venipedia can be used as guidelines Template Map Convent Template Map Cross and Template Map Relief Template Image Data If there are multiple images associated with the data then this template should be created for the data If there s only one image then just place the image in the infobox and exclude this template If you re planning to upload a large number of images be sure that the images have a unique naming schema that can be related to some other unique piece of data that will be included in the infobox Additionally a generic category should be added to your images For example all of the images for the convents in Venipedia begin with their WPI Code which is a unique code designed for each convent An ask query can be used to compare the WPI Code of the current page with the beginning of the filename of the images located in Category Convent Images Additionally the code should include a parameter to display the images in MediaWiki s built in gallery 70 format This is done through the use of the extension Semantic Result Formats The code for this query IS ask Category Convent Images
89. ssigning Data to Properties First the data has to be assigned a property For example say there is a convent Convento di S Alvise and each convent in Venice has a WPI Code that the Venice Project Center has devised Convento di S Alvise s code is ALVI so in order to assign the property WP Code to ALVI we type somewhere in the article WPI Code ALVI The general syntax for this is Property Name Data This process can then be repeated for each convent Defining Property Types It is also necessary to define the data type of each property This allows for more precise search results meaning the user can easily find exactly what they re looking for 65 Using the previous convent example the WPI Code ALVI is of the data type String Common data types such as String Number Date Text etc are predefined by SMW and can be found on the page Special Types To classify WPI Code as data type String go to the page Properties WPI Code and then add the following code Has type String somewhere on the page The general structure for adding data types is as follows Has type Data Type Querying Data Now that data has been entered and assigned a property it can be searched for The way to do this is through the use of an ask query To search for anything not just convents within the wiki that uses a WPI Code type the following into any wiki page or in the Special Ask page which is part of SMW ask WPI Code The
90. t htm poweredbyico gt lt l1 gt lt php endif lt php if this gt data copyrightico gt li id footer icon copyright c php this gt htm copyrightico 2 li lt php endif lt ul gt in cn iD co 0 un Si 1 in cn un h Venice 2 0 74 File Directory venipedia skins vector main ltr css The following changes were made to the Vector skin s CSS file to fix the display of the main body after the addition of the Venipedia header at the top of the page Navigation Containers CHANGE author Tom Finelli date 11 4 1n reason needed to properly align the left and right navigation boxes after the addition of the Venipedia header change top from 2 5em to 11 5em and margin top from 2 5em to ll 5em left navigation position absolute left 10em top 11 5em right navigation I float right margin top 0 33em margin top 11 5em Panel CHANGE author Tom Finelli date 11 4 10 reason need to adjust the absolute position of the panel due to the addition of the Venipedia background logo change top from 160px to 180px mw panel I position absolute top 180px padding top lem width 10em left D 75
91. t the website is being continually exposed to more and more people We saw an initial surge in visitors shortly after adding a link to the website to the English Wikipedia s Venice article While the number of visitors decreased after the burst it remained at a higher average level than it had been at before the addition of the link supporting the idea that publicizing the link would bring higher traffic An additional surge at the end of the observed period corresponds to the creation of a page on Facebook http www facebook com pages Venipedia 17175870 9511606 v wall dedicated to Venipedia as well as the A a e addition of a link to the Italian language Wikipedia The Figure 26 Venipedia s visits around the ici dditi f a link to Wikipedi absolute greatest number of visitors occurred just before Ot a 10K t0 PENA Thanksgiving on November 22 2010 when Venipedia had 100 unique visitors The exact cause of this surge is unknown as the date doesn t correspond to anything significant in the city It is the date after the Festa della Salute but common sense would suggest interest to build leading up to such an event not after The other thing to consider with regards to site use is how people are getting to Venipedia Google analytics breaks access down into three types of sources direct traffic referral traffic and search engine traffic In the case of Venipedia most of the visits have come from search engines like Google
92. template concept to transclude data into wiki entries Therefore the first real step in this process is to define and populate all of the templates for the data There are 4 kinds of templates that we have used during our importing process e Infobox named Template Infobox Data e Page named Template Page Data e Map named Template Map Data e Gallery named Template Image Data where Data represents the generic title of data that you want to import Template Infobox Data e Locate the Help Infobox article in Venipedia and use that to design your infobox The process is no different than the regular design of and infobox 69 e Assign semantic properties to your label and data fields in your infobox See the User Manual on Semantic MediaWiki s website specificly the Properties and types section located at http semantic mediawiki org wiki Help Properties and types Template Page Data If the data has longer text fields then this is the template where it belongs The text will appear in the body of the wiki article The template should be setup as follows Heading 1 bodytext1 Heading 2 bodytext2 Additionally the following pages in Venipedia can be used as guidelines Template Page Convent Template Page Cross and Template Page Relief Template Map Data If the data has geographical coordinates include it in this template The data should be queried in the same manner as regular semantic map
93. tent Allplot is page consists mostly entirely of a plot summary Please improve the article by discussing the work in more detail References is pages lacks sufficient references and or citations Please improve the article by adding to or improving the references Expand help improve this article by expanding it Style Catimprove is page needs to be in more categories Please edit the article to add some if possible Copyedit a page may require copyediting for style grammar tone and or spelling Please assist with improving the article 54 Inappropriatetone Vis page s tone is inappropriate for Venipedia Please improve the article by making it more encyclopedic InfoReq Rewrite Vis page may need to be rewritten to meet our standards for quality Please assist with improving the article Singlesource This page relies largely or entirely on a single source or doesn t cite any sources Please do some more research and improve the article by adding some more sources Notice Outofdate g This page contains information that is out of date Please rectify this by updating it 55 Protection Protected This article is currently protected and may not be edited Please contribute to the discussion Vandalism This article is suspected to have been vandalized Please contribute to the discussion to assist us in assessing
94. to Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti 2010 http www istitutoveneto it accessed October 1 2010 JISC infoNet What is a Repository http www jiscinfonet ac uk infokits repositories what accessed October 2010 43 Khamsi R Reference Revolution Nature News 2005 http www nature com news 2005 050318 full news050314 17 html accessed October 4 2010 Miniwatts Marketing Group Internet Usage Statistics 2010 http www internetworldstats com stats htm accessed 10 5 10 O Leary D E 2008 Wikis from each according to his knowledge Computer 41 2 34 41 Oxford English Dictionary wiki March 2007 http dictionary oed com cgi entry 50293088 single 1 amp query_type word amp queryword wiki amp first 1 amp max_to_show 10 accessed 10 1 10 Prasad ARD and D P Madalli Metadata in DSpace 2005 Sutherland B 2006 The people s encyclopedia as wikipedia grows into a mainstream internet brand will it be able to keep its volunteers in line Newsweek January 9 Venice in Peril Venice in Peril 2010 http www veniceinperil com accessed October 1 2010 Wikipedia About Wikipedia October 1 2010 http en wikipedia org wiki Wikipedia About accessed 10 5 10 Wikipedia English Wikipedia 2001 http en wikipedia org wiki Main_Page accessed October 1 2010 Wikipedia 2010 In Encyclopaedia Britannica Retrieved October 02 2010 from EncyclopaediaBritannica Online http
95. to create and edit articles in Venipedia Again we reference the Wikipedia guide to syntax because it is already so fully developed While this is true there are also features that are unique to Venipedia that are fully explained in our user guide 30 3 2 Managing Data through Semantic MediaWiki We researched various methods of data management searching for one that met our needs We wanted a way to effectively manage our data but also to present it in Venipedia We found what we were looking for by using the Semantic MediaWiki extension This extension for the MediaWiki software allows you to tag pieces of data and search through these tags creating relationships between pieces of information We tagged the information that was contained within infoboxes allowing Venipedia users to connect articles through similarities in the infobox information Additionally it is also possible to tag files that are uploaded to the website A spreadsheet or database file can be attached to a relevant article the file can be tagged and can then be accessed semantically Another feature that the Semantic MediaWiki extension supports is the use of Semantic Maps This allows users to encode an interactive map with geographical data that is pulled directly from the infoboxes at the time the page is accessed by the user This means that the data on the map is automatically updated with any changes every time someone views it Thus the maps are essentially sustain
96. tructure of a typical article and syntax guidelines The first part of the user guide discusses the mission of Venipedia We wanted to make the purpose and philosophy of the website very clear to users We discussed that Venipedia is an English language wiki based website dedicated to the study of the city of Venice Italy It is intended as a resource of unique information and data We explained that there are already several sources on the internet about Venice including both the English and Italian Wikipedia websites as well as various Italian organizations and that this website aims to fill the gap between these available resources We mentioned that the key feature that distinguishes this website is the content that is focused on the city of Venice and it is in English The second part of the user guide is an article showing the general structure that a Venipedia article should have The article in the user guide follows the format that it describes and each section contains a description of what belongs there While we provide the general outline in our guide we also reference the Wikipedia manual of style There are some features of the article style that are specific to Venipedia but there are a lot of similarities to the structure of Wikipedia articles The Wikipedia manual of style has been filled out extensively and provides details and suggestions on many topics The final section of the user guide provides a guide to the wiki syntax used
97. up and list fields 51 11 Save the page List of Current Navboxes Bridges ved Bridges Bridges Over The Grand Canal Ponte dell Accademia Ponte di Rialto Ponte degli Scalzi Ponte della Costituzione Convents Convents hide Convento di Gesuiti Convento di Madonna dell Orto Convento di S Alvise Convento di S Caterina Convents of Cannaregio Convento di S Giobbe Convento di S Girolamo Convento di S Maria delle Penitenti Convento di S Maria dei Miracoli Convento S Maria di Nazateth Scalzi Convento di S Anna Convento de la Fava Convento della Ca di Dio Convento della Celestia Convento della piet S M della Visitazione Convento delle Suore Mantellate Convento di F da Paula eee ae Convento di Mendicanti Convento di Muneghette Convento di S Apollonia Convento di S Elena Convento di S Francesco de la Vigna Convento di S Giovanni e Paolo Convento di S Giovanni in Laterano Convento di S Giovanni in Malta Convento di S Giustina Convento di S leepio Convento di S Lorenzo Convento di S Pietro Convento di S Zaccaria Convento di S M del Pianto Convento delle Eremitane Convento di Catecumeni Convento di Gesuati Convento di Ognisanti Convents of Dorsoduro Convento di S Gregorio Convento di S Maria de la Carita Convento di S Maria del Carmine Convento di S Maria della Visitazione Convento di S Sebastiano Convento di S Teresa Convento di Spirito Sant
98. ure 32 Venipedia s visits around the addition of a link to Wikipedia 37 Figure 33 A graph showing the sources of Venipedia s visitors for each day from 11 09 2010 to 12 09 2010 38 Figure 34 The factbox for Chiesa di Santo Stefano 39 Figure 35 A screenshot of the convent layer running on the iPhone 40 Figure 36 Types of maintenance tags Source http venipedia org index php title Venipedia Templates 53 Figure 37 When a reference is clicked in the article Cite displays the References section and highlights the reference clicked 58 12 1 0 Introduction The city of Venice has existed for over a thousand years and for much of that time it has remained essentially unchanged creating a unique city in our modern world The ancient infrastructure of Venice faces challenges in the current social atmosphere and environmental situation A wide range of organizations have studied and worked to preserve the city of Venice Students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute have been looking for solutions to its problems for the past twenty years through the Venice Project Center The projects of these students cover a wide range of topics including the preservation of public art the impact of tourists on the city the change in canal water flow over the vears and the collection of information about all types of historic buildings An enormous amount of data has been collected by these organizations yet this useful data is currently inaccessible to the
99. www britannica com EBchecked topic 1192818 Wikipedia World Wide Web Consortium W3C Plenary Talk by Tim BL at WWWF94 Overview http www w3 org Talks WWW94Tim accessed October 2010 World Wide Web Consortium W3C Resource Description Framework RDF http www w3 org TR 2004 REC rdf concepts 20040210 accessed October 2010 World Wide Web Consortium W3C The Original Proposal of the WWW HTMLized http www w3 org History 1989 proposal html accessed October 2010 44 Appendix A Wiki Vocabulary Here are some definitions which will help the reader understand many things that follow in the Appendices section These definitions have been taken directly from respective Wikipedia pages Refer to the URL at the end of each definition for more information on the subject MediaWiki is a popular free web based wiki software application It is developed by and it runs all the projects of the Wikimedia Foundation including Wikipedia Wiktionary and Wikinews as well as powering many other wiki websites worldwide It is written in the PHP programming language and uses a backend database Source http en wikipedia org wiki MediaWiki Namespace is a set of pages whose names begin with a particular prefix recognized by the MediaWiki software followed by a colon or in the case of the main namespace have no such prefix For example the user namespace consists of all pages with names beginning User Encyclopedia articles ap
100. y sharing information over the internet there has been a recent move to share data itself in its purest form The internet is already populated with information in the form of documents but there is very little hard data in the form of spreadsheets and databases and even fewer examples of released data being presented in concise organized ways which could be easily searched and traversed to find data quickly and logically This is the core idea of the Semantic Web For WPI in particular this movement is interesting due to the amount of research generated by projects While the VPC has collected all of this data and information and created an outlet for it much of the data remains inaccessible to the general public Some of the research was stored on CDs and an inactive data repository called Dspace The information on the Venipedia website while in existence t Wikipedia 2010 ibid 13 was not useful for the public because of the lack of the structure necessary for website navigation Also there was no system in place to manage any of the raw data that has been collected over the years Additionally there was no way to access the information in Venipedia while exploring the city itself This project seeks to provide a resource containing both information and data about the city of Venice to the English speaking public Our goal therefore was to devise a system to share all of the information from the Venice Project Center as well as to
101. your infobox so that others will be able to properly reuse your infobox Again refer to other infoboxes Template Infobox Convent Template Infobox Church and Template Infobox Artist for examples 47 List of Current Infoboxes 48 Infobox Convent Infobox Church 49 Infobox Relief Infobox Organization Infobox Island 50 Navboxes The purpose of navboxes is to connect the user to articles similar to the current page Navboxes like infoboxes are created and handled through the use of MediaWiki s Template system We have implemented the structure of navboxes by using Wikipedia s navbox templates as a model In all we created 4 navboxes These can be found at the following location http venipedia org index php title Categorv Navbox templates Implementation We ve developed a brief procedure describing how we added the navbox feature in Venipedia This should not have to be done again unless something unexpected happens to the navbox feature Requirement Documentation templates from Wikipedia 12 Go to http en wikipedia org wiki Template Navbox 13 Click View Source at the top right of the page 14 Copy the code 15 Make a page in Venipedia titled Template Navbox 16 Paste the code into the page and save the page 17 The documentation subpage should also be included so go to http en wikipedia org wiki Template Navbox doc 18 And repeat steps 2 5 except replace Template Navbox with Templ

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