midgard and the interactive knowledge system
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Midgard
Not just a CMS
Finnish Midgard solution provider
www.nemein.com
Midgard is different
Joint venture between several companies
CMS Watch:
“Hanseatic leagueof open source content management”
Not just a CMS
● Repository-oriented architecture● Libgda provides database abstraction: SQLite,
MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, ...● D-Bus signals provide interprocess
communications● Language bindings to C, PHP, Python, Mono
(C#) and Objective-C● PHP is the main UI language
Not just a CMS
“Lego brick model”
Connect standard MidCOM components together to build your site, then customize layout and
configuration
Integration with social web services
● Import and provide RSS feeds
● Synchronize photos with Flickr
● Get location from Plazes
● Get status from Twitter,Jaiku or Qaiku
● Aggregate and publish Microformats
The march to Midgard 2
Old Midgard – codenamed “Ragnaroek” system is a capable CMS
New Midgard2 – codenamed “Vinland” is where IKS will be applied
Headed for the Semantic Web
Adding ontologies to MgdSchemas
Semantic indexing and SPARQL
Semantic tagging in WYSIWYG editor
Exposing more semantic data via Microformats or RDFa
www.midgard-project.org - www.midgard2.org
Henri BergiusEmail: [email protected]: [email protected]: http://bergie.iki.fi/Microblog: bergie (Twitter & Qaiku)
Photos by myself, Toni Eliasz, Tuomas Kuosmanen and Fredrik Koivusalo