Triple A
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Wiki of the Month January 2013
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| Pages: | 1503 |
| Users: | 16 (0 active) |
| Properties: | 83 |
| Templates: | 70 |
| Forms: | 6 |
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Triple A is a Semantic MediaWiki site that provides IT architecture information for educational organizations. It supports MBO-scholen (Dutch secondary schools) wanting to innovate educational processes. The vocational education system is changing and the demand for flexible, affordable and well-organized education grows. Triple A has worked to develop the vision of education through functional designs.
Why SMW?[edit]
The platform was selected because an approachable platform was needed for our target user group, which consists of a great variety of people: Information analysts, Project managers, Line management, IT architects, Teachers, Students etc. In addition to approachable, a smart platform was also needed to combine structured and unstructured data.
How is SMW used?[edit]
For the Triple A site a wiki was chosen to allow for the annotation of data throughout the site. This allows the site to make relationships between subjects and content pages with little effort.
Custom skin[edit]
The wiki has a website-style front-end to make it more accessible, but underneath is a full SMW implementation. A custom skin was developed to hide many of the elements that Triple A wanted restricted from the everyday user. The Triple A custom skin also strengthens brand identity and allows Triple A to decide how they want their users to interact with their site.
Extensions[edit]
The wiki uses several interesting extensions, such as extensions to create custom ebook or PDF extracts of the architecture encyclopedia, as well as some self-developed extensions for front-end integration. These extensions were created as a joint effort of SaMBO-ICT and ArchiXL. SaMBO-ICT is a knowledge center for MBO-level education and ArchiXL is an IT-architecture and knowledge management consulting agency.
- Extension "Page Forms"
- Used to input data into the wiki by a select group of users.
- Extension "Semantic Glossary"
- Semantic Glossary is a MediaWiki extension that lets you define terms and abbreviations together with a definition. This extension was used to display a glossary term 'sdefinition within a content page when it is hovered over using the mouse cursor.
- ePubExport
- ePubExport is a MediaWiki extension that converts wiki pages into an ebook-readable files, in epub format.
