WissKI (Wissenschaftliche Kommunikationsinfrastruktur - Scientific Communication Infrastructure) is a virtual research environment and linked open data management software. Beneath the fundamental possibilities to create, read, edit and delete content, WissKI offers solutions for all tasks of the research data lifecycle and help users to produce and publish FAIR data. Furthermore, users can create revisions and translations, open the access to the data with a wide range of interfaces and integration options, but also restrict it via detailed rights management. The linked open data is stored in an external triple store, reachable trough own endpoints and therefore is independent from Drupal or WissKI's architecture. The data modelling follows an ontological approach, preferably, but not exclusively according to the CIDOC CRM. As part of the open source content management system Drupal, WissKI provides all the advantages of an constantly maintained and developed webapp. Last but not least, the basic functions of WissKI can be extended with a variety of Drupal modules. This turns WissKI to a full-featured research data management software - suitable for a wide range of application areas.
WissKI started as a joint venture of the Digital Humanities Research Group of the Department of Computer Science at Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) in Erlangen, the Department of Museum Informatics at the Germanic National Museum (GNM) in Nuremberg and the Biodiversity Informatics Group at Zoological Research Museum Koenig (ZFMK) in Bonn. The Software development was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) from 2008 to 2012 and from 2014 to 2017 and is was funded as a participant in 2021 by the NFDI4Culture Consortium within the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). WissKI is now supported by the Association for semantic data processing (IGSD e.V.) and has a continuously growing community.
The domain wiss-ki.eu has migrated to a new server. This may lead to some page errors or connection problems to chat.wiss-ki.eu. We will fix this soon.
Our second WissKI User Barcamp will start on Friday 11.08.2023 from 0900 to 1200 hrs at the weekly. The barcamp is a space to informally get to know the community, to talk about challenges and solutions or to express wishes and comments. Topics are welcome in the hackmd!
Unser zweites WissKI User...
The second Hackdays this year took place on the topic of "WIssKI Future". There was less coding and more discussion about what's coming up soon.
For one thing, our weekly meetings on Fridays from 0900 to 1200 hours are no longer called "Hackathon", but simply "Weekly". This is meant to sound less...
https://www.drupal.org/project/wisski/releases/8.x-3.12
Including tons of work from the hackathons like:
- A better approach to distributed federated queries
- Many smaller bugfixes
- More stability
Brand new docker compose environment with the latest PHP 8.2.5 and Drupal 10.0.8.
We have to change the easyrdf library, to a maintained fork and there may will be some deprecation warning, but the rest will work fine (hopefully ;) ).
More at the git or in docs.
Three intensive days with the Federated Queries came to an end! After the basic structure for the different query types had been established since last time, we translated them into clean code, documented them properly, tested them extensively and fixed a few bugs in the process. Unfortunately, the...
Our next Hackdays are coming up! We will work on the federated queries again, they are not completely finished yet. If you want to participate, feel free to come to Nuremberg or to the ether. Newcomers please attend on monday, because this is the recap day. More info in the Hackathon-Channel.
WissKI Example v1.7 has an updated Drupal 9.5.7 and changed from layout builder to display suite. Therefore it comes with a own theme for minimal css adjustments. You can start the docker container with:
docker run --name wisskiExample -p 80:80 -d rnsrk/wisski_example:1.7
Our first user meeting took place online and dealt with the possibilities for exchange, how best to report issues, requests for improvement and suggestions from the community and general discussions about topics related to WissKI.
What were the results?
Communication
So far, there are many ways...
We had our first Quarterly WissKI User Meeting and besides impulses from the community it was also about how to deal with issues like bugs and feature requests.
We want all issues to be gathered in one place, all docs to be found on one page and still communication to be as easy as possible.
The...
You have a suggestion for improvement of WissKI? You always get a warning and would like to know what it means? You have a great workflow or modeling and would like to share it? You would just like to know how to optimize your WissKI? At the WissKI user meeting we had already announced that there...
Best WissKI ever (as always ;-)
Features:
- New autocomplete feature from Arne (Thanks!)
- Many improvements from uncountable hours of Hackathons (Thanks to Robert, Tom, Kai, Myriel, Philipp (Core Team) and all others beyond the core team).
Some important Bugfixes like only one entity was...
We now have our own Mattermost server, which we manage completely ourselves and where no messages are deleted anymore! The address is chat.wiss-ki.eu and this is the invitation link: WE ARE CLOSING SLACK ON JUNE 30, 2023!
Next Hackdays coming soon, where we finish the federated queries implementation with sorting, pagination etc.
More information like detailed agenda or the online meeting room in the Slack-Channel #hackathon.
Many thanks to the hackers from Erlangen, Bayreuth, Heidelberg and Nuremberg for their contribution to the implementation of the federated SPARQL queries in WissKI!
It was quite a bit of work (almost two years!), but WissKI can handle federated repositories now! We have plans for queries to one...
The 4th annual WissKI user meeting will take place on December 8th. The meeting will be held in german, find the announcement below.
Das 4. Netzwerktreffen für WissKI-Anwender:innen stellt Entwicklungen und Neuigkeiten aus der WissKI-Community vor und gibt Einblicke in aktuelle Projekte.
Für...
New WissKI 3.10 includes basic Drupal 10 compatibility and many contributed patches from the community like:
- WissKI Statistics Module for statistics about bundle/entity/triplestore
- WissKI Fire Brigade Module for URI migration and other clean-up functions for EIDs/URIs
- Plugin for linkit
- Adde...
Get WissKI 3.9 Release!
- Much community work from the hackathon (thanks to the teams from Bayreuth, Heidelberg and Erlangen)!
- A completely new permalink formatter
- A completely new entity reference eid formatter (esp. for contextual filter views)
- Many bugfixes including the one for bogus...
New feature in develop version 8.x-3.x
At Manage Structure WissKI Entities and Bundles click on the desired WissKI entity and change to the Individual list tab. You can select multiple individuals or delete all individuals in one process. Be careful! Deleted individuals cannot be restored!
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The Linkblock in 8.x-3.x-dev has a new structure with CSS classes to style it better. But this could also have an impact on existing themes!
You have now the possibility to transform your Pathbuilder XML to an ODBC import script with the WissKI odbc generator.
WissKI's Pathbuilder has now toogleable groups in the latest development version https://drupal.org/project/wisski/releases/8.x-3.x-dev! Just click on the arrows on each group ... is a fundamental structure element of the pathbuilder ... is the place where you define the WissKI structure, configure groups and fields and tell WissKI to which adapter it should send the queries. You can export/import your pathbuilder setup. The administrative name of a pathbuilder could something like Collection and Collection Items or Named Entities. and can be used as a disambiguation point. Enabled groups resulting in bundles, if you click Save and generate bundles and fields. Administrative names are i. e. Collection or Person and machine names should be start with "g_", like g_person. to fold/unfold it. Here is a little tutorial video how it works. It may be an advantage when the groups are closed as...
[Presentation in German]
Reflexion über WissKI im Vortrag "Das digitale Konchylienkabinett" von Robert Nasarek und Lasse Stelzer auf der Abschlusstagung "Objektsprache und Ästhetik" des Leopoldina Zentrums für Wissenschaftsforschung. Mehr Informationen auf der Programmseite der Leopoldina...
It's possible to export all pathbuilders and corresponding ontologies in the current wisski:8.x-3.x-dev version with one click.
Just visit Manage Configuration Pathbuilders (WissKI) and click + Export Pathbuilder and Ontologies. This creates a zip archive with the current date in your public:/...
New Version of WissKI released! Version 3.4 is available at https://www.drupal.org/project/wisski/releases/8.x-3.4.
New Features
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Newest best WissKI Version featuring:
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Upgraded Mirador-module to Mirador 3
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Basic semantic IIIF annotation support
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Basic DOI support
An...
New Version of WissKI released! Version 3.3 is available at https://www.drupal.org/project/wisski/releases/8.x-3.3.
New Features
Newest best WissKI-Release featuring:
- Preview image uris compatible to SOLR
- Mirador adjustments
- Many more improvements from Hackathons
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The annual user meeting will (unfortunately) take place virtually again this year. In the morning, innovations around WissKI will be presented, in the afternoon there will be presentations from the community. Room and program will be announced soon!
Schedule: https://blog.arthistoricum.net...
New Version of WissKI released! Version 3.2 is available at https://www.drupal.org/project/wisski/releases/8.x-3.2.
New Features
- Sort by eids for better SOLR Support
- Show entity uri in datasets!
Make sure to visit update.php!