Semantic Wikipedia

New Scientist reports,
"Computer scientists at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany have developed modifications to Wikipedia's underlying software that would let editors add extra meaning to the links between pages of the encyclopaedia. The team's Semantic MediaWiki system lets authors add "annotations" - or tags conferring meaning - to articles and the hypertext links between them."

"Adding annotations could lead to smarter ways to search sites like Wikipedia, the researchers claim. Project member Markus Krötzsch, says the first adopters could be niche communities who maintain their own wiki sites on specialised topics."

"Some web experts call for similar annotations to be added to all websites. This vision for a "semantic web" is driven by scientists including web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee."