Midgard and the Interactive Knowledge System

Midgard

Not just a CMS

HenriBergius

henri.bergius@iki.fihttp://bergie.iki.fi

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: henri.bergius@nemein.comXMPP: henri.bergius@nemein.comBlog: http://bergie.iki.fi/Microblog: bergie (Twitter & Qaiku)

Photos by myself, Toni Eliasz, Tuomas Kuosmanen and Fredrik Koivusalo