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WikiD: Structured Data and Wikis

One of the things that JotSpot opened my eyes to was the possibilities of backing wikis with a structured data repositories. Jeff Young wrote to point me at a project he’s working on called WikiD, a “project (originally called MetaWiki) [that] leverages open standards, open source software, and existing resources to extend the Wiki model to support the creation and maintenance of structured data.” There’s a demo site if you’d like to play around with it.

Posted by on July 19, 2005 10:52 AM

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We've been evaluating JotSpot for use as a company wiki/intranet for a couple of weeks. The first thing we wanted to make sure of, since it is a hosted solution, is that we could take our data with us if we decided to leave. JotSpot allows an XML backup of your wiki, which is nice, but it would be nice to have a more human format in addition to the XML data. For instance it would be nice if you could also export your wiki to html, images, & attached files.

Comment from Michael at July 25, 2005 9:14 PM

JotSpot also exports your attachments along with your XML pages packaged as a ZIP file, preserving your document hierarchy.