Semantic website part whatever

As you know if you have been on my blog I did try some time ago to setup a semantic website on Dirk Maggs and all of his works, which as it happens is what one of my main websites is all about.

Now when I tried last time to set up the site I had some problems with the software that drives the whole thing, mainly getting it to work without it crashing on me.

I must say here that I am running all the software as a local server using xamp to drive the web server and MySQL as the database.

So after a few months I gave up as I was not getting anywhere with it.

So it's been some time so I have decided to have another go at a semantic website.

The good news is that I think I have found some good software in SMWplus which for individuals is free to use, but it does not come with any support, but there is a lot of information on the website, which I must admit I have used very heavily over the last few days.

The good news is that I am up and running. The bad news is that some of the extensions to the software tend to cripple the whole thing and I have had to reinstall on more than one occasion, but as I have learned this process has become an easy step to make and carry out.

No the snag that I have hit is this.

I have worked out how to mark up a page so that it has a category, that was easy, and how to make new category's.

I have learned how to do annotations on some of the items in a page.

So for instance I have done the following as an example

[[actor::dirk maggs]] this gives dirk Maggs the property of actor, I have done the same for him as a writer, director, producer and male.

I have added him to the category person.

I can search for male actors, and that works.

The problem I now have is how do I attach all the productions that he has done to him, and also to the other people who are involved in some way with the production?

I want to be able to do a search for say Shane Rimmer and see all the productions he has been in. Or do a search for all the productions made in 1990 that have 30 minute episodes.

I have as yet not worked out how to code this information.

Do I have to use category or properties? Or a mixture of both?

Maybe it's time to hit the manuals again, I have to get this to work as without it what's the point of having a semantic website?

If I can get the local copy to work then putting it on the Internet will be I suspect not as hard a task.


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