BlueSpice goes SemanticsSMWCon, Barcelona 2015

Richard Heigl, Hallo Welt! – Medienwerkstatt GmbH

Agenda

BlueSpice: State of the project

The general strategy for the next years and links to Semantic MediaWiki / Cargo

Some examples of what integration could mean

Collaboration and next steps

Nice idea, but many open questions? Discussion

– Requirements

– Known problems

– Priorities

BlueSpiceState of the Project

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History

• 2010: Hallo Welt started BlueSpice

• 2015: New and easier subscription model

Intention

• Get most important and maintained MW extensions

• Get additional commercial extensions by Hallo Welt!

• Deliver not only a collection of extensions,

but an integrated and standardised product

• With good usability

• Deliver reliable development and services

• Offer BlueSpice as additional service for software developers, web agencies

and service providers

BlueSpiceMediaWiki Enterprise Distribution

History

• 2010: Hallo Welt started BlueSpice 2010

• 2015: New and easier subscription model

Intention

• Get most important and maintained MW extensions

• Get additional commercial extensions by Hallo Welt!

• Deliver not only a collection of extensions,

but an integrated and standardised product

• With good usability

• Deliver reliabel development and services

• Offer BlueSpice as additional service for software developers, web agencies

and service providers

BlueSpiceMediaWiki Enterprise Distribution

SMW is inherent part

of the distribution

Free edition

• 1.500 downloads per month,

130 countries, >50 languages

• Mostly used for internal and

public wikis

• Cheap alternative to

Confluence

Pro edition

• Additional business critical functions

• Subscription of software maintenance and

support

BlueSpiceDelivered in two editions

Free edition

• 1.500 downloads per month,

130 countries, >50 languages

• Mostly used for internal and

public wikis

• Cheap alternative to

Confluence

Pro edition

• Additional business critical functions

• Subscription of software maintenance and

support

BlueSpiceDelivered in two editions

Easy „system“

for customers and partners

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Where are we?Google Trends says: Next to Semantic MediaWiki

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Where are we?Google Trends says: Next to Semantic Media Wiki

OK, that‘ s not

really comparable

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Where are we?Google Trends says: Next to Semantic Media WikiSMW and BlueSpice

need more

visibility and a boost

OK, that‘ s not

really comparable

On the way

• WebDAV - work with documents like in Sharepoint (edit directly from the

browser)

• MediaWiki VisualEditor support

• Import of content packages

Three big issues

• Extension and update management

• Usability and grafical user interface

• Restructuring of the product

RoadmapTechnical development 2016

Update and Extension ManagementProviding software for subscribers

BlueSpiceThe general strategy for the next years and links to Semantic MediaWiki / Cargo

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Customers use BlueSpice for …

• Knowlegebases

• Manuals

• Documentation: „Living

documents“

They‘re more and more looking for …

• Support of metadata (lists,

forms e.a.)

• Content packages

• Templates

• Structures 14

Why Semantic?Experiences and perspective of Hallo Welt!

Edition and RepositoryProduct and Add-ons

Search

Editing Communication

Task and Ideas

Editorial ToolsQuality

Assurance

Bookmaker

WikiDocs

SemanticsVisualisation

Administration

BlueSpice pro Repository and

Marketplace

MediaWiki

Extensions

BlueSpice

Extensions

TemplatesSemantic

Extensions

Edition and RepositoryProduct and Add-ons

Search

Editing Communication

Task and Ideas

Editorial ToolsQuality

Assurance

Bookmaker

WikiDocs

SemanticsVisualisation

Administration

BlueSpice pro Repository and

Marketplace

MediaWiki

Extensions

BlueSpice

Extensions

Templates

Could this become an appropriate template

repository? Or do we need something else?

Semantic

Extensions

• Semantic MediaWiki

• Semantic Forms

• Semantic Forms Inputs

• Semantic Result Formats

• Semantic Extra Special Properties

• External Data

• Page Schemas

Next release:

• Cargo

SemanticsIncluded extensions today

• Semantic MediaWiki

• Semantic Forms

• Semantic Forms Inputs

• Semantic Result Formats

• Semantic Extra Special Properties

• External Data

• Page Schemas

Next release:

• Cargo

SemanticsIncluded extensions today

Your

recommendations?

BlueSpice goes SemanticsSome examples of what integration could mean

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Semantic Forms IntegrationVisual Editor in forms and text fields

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BSGridA result format with ExtJS

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Bookmaker IntegrationProduce dynamic content for book export

BlueSpice goes SemanticsCollaboration and next steps

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Semantic MediaWiki

• Many different use cases

• Innovative and new solutions

• Community of MediaWiki experts

• No ecosystem

BlueSpice

• Reliability and stability as mission

• Ecosystem

• Semantic support but not the core business

Collaboration and next stepsTwo worlds

Sharing

• Infrastructure

• Publication of use cases and service providers

Delivery and reselling of templates

• Via BlueSpice Shop / Marketplace

• In a second step via repository

Collaboration and next stepsPossible projects

Extension development

• Integrate and maintain semantic extensions

• Working together on alternative skins (e.g. Chameleon, Bootstrapskin)

Partner program

• Technical partnerships

• Cloud and hosting partnerships

Collaboration and next stepsPossible projects

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• Requirements

• Known problems

• Priorities

DiscussionNice ideas, but many questions …

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