A variety of websites and projects using Semantic MediaWiki are collected on this website to showcase the many strengths of the software and its creative uses in a diversity of fields. The list is not intended to be exhaustive but represents selections made by the community, including websites that have previously been featured as Wiki of the Month, an initiative which ran from 2010 to 2015, and wikis of interest to digital humanities. Know of an interesting semantic wiki that should be included here? Feel free to add it yourself.
Book Owners Online is a directory of historical book owners, with information about their libraries, and signposts to further sources. It currently has entries for over 2450 British owners from the 16th to the 18th centuries, and is being expanded.
Book Owners Online is authored by the book historian David Pearson, published by the UCL Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL), and generously funded by the Bibliographical Society, the Marc Fitch Fund, and the Board of Electors to the James PR Lyell Readership in Bibliography at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library.
The Satires of Juvenal (Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, 55? A.D. – 138? A.D.) were a constant part of the reading matter of the European Renaissance and were regularly studied in schools and colleges, especially in the sixteenth century, even if they were less popular than the poems of Vergil or the comedies of Terence.
This educational need was facilitated by the newly emergent printing industry. The earliest recorded printed edition of Juvenal was produced in 1468 or 1469, probably in Rome. By the end of the sixteenth century, at least 206 editions of the full text, selections, commentaries and translations of Juvenal had been produced for sale in 43 towns in 9 (modern) countries across Europe.
This wiki presents entries for these editions, many with images and links to digitised copies. Each entry includes a link to a PDF file with a traditional bibliographical description of the edition. A full census of surviving copies is given; please report any further copies for addition to the wiki.
The wiki has been implemented using MediaWiki software. This facilitates automated indexing by a multiplicity of categories, e.g. printers, booksellers, towns, commentators, libraries, formats and much more. The original version used Semantic MediaWiki but was discontinued when its host site went out of existence.
Fontes Inediti Numismaticae Antiquae (FINA) aims at collecting, reading, studying and publishing unprinted textual evidence related to ancient coins created before 1800.
In addition to the great amount of new information on numismatic topics that FINA provides, the project proves also important in a broader perspective as it adds information for reconstructing the history of ideas within each scholarly social network, documented here in the FINA Wiki.
Opera Camerarii is a project of the Digital Humanities Center at the University of Würzburg which offers collections of all printed publications and letters of Joachim Camerarius (1500-1574).
Digital humanities – A specially curated list of semantic wikis in the digital humanities
Testimonials – Read endorsements from professionals
Wiki of the Month – Websites featured as Wiki of the Month (2010–2015)
WikiApiary (external) – A more extensive list of public websites running Semantic MediaWiki can be obtained from the WikiApiary website. The site has been having difficulties for some time but is in the process of being revived.
Add an SMW website - Have an interesting wiki to show to the community? One that uses Semantic MediaWiki? You are welcome to add it to the site.
