How it works/Semantic forms and structured data

Semantic data allow a data consumer to accurately retrieve data based on their semantic meaning. For instance, an internal search engine might serve all your pages marked as "article" to a user searching for articles created by your organization, or articles of a given author, written in a specific time frame, courses of a given languages, delivered by a specific teacher, and so forth.

In order to reach this purpose, we have created a rich set of semantic properties and forms (a form might be considered a container of a consistent set of semantic properties) which can be simply inserted in any wiki page, can be edited as a form therein, and which will transform an "anonymous" wikipage (or html page as soon as it is served) in a database of semantic contents which can be used in the most profitable ways.

For instance, if you create a wiki page describing one of your language courses for a given academic year, that information can be displayed within the main portal of this platform (or by whatever other data consumer which will query the APIs) within a list of available language courses, and to fuel interactive functions, for instance the purchase of a number of lessons by a student, a chat between a prospective student and school's manager, and more.

Here is the set of forms/templates available at present: a template is just the form by which a collection of semantic data is recorded within a wikipage, so a template is entirely sufficient for describing the data structure filled in by a given form.

Organization

This is the main form/data structure related to your organization. Some of the values foreseen by this templates (like 'coordinates') will be automatically filled in by the related form, which you can find here. Managers of a given organizations can edit only the form related to their organization, once is created by an administrator following the application.

{{Form organization
|Name=
|Type=
|Logo=
|Country=
|Address=
|Coordinates=
|Foundation year=
|Email=
|Website=
}}

Article

Related form: Article. The article can be of type 'news', 'article' and 'post', and each of such types foresee a different page's title (created automatically on form submission based on type, title and date). The field "authors" will be used by the front end platform to display the author(s) name(s) under the title for the type "article".

{{Form article 
|Type=
|Title=
|Authors=
|day=
|month=
|year=
|Excerpt=
|Tags=
}}

Language course

Related form: Language course. The "teachers" field is automatically filled in with the teachers registered as such (i.e. with the pages which containing a form "teacher") of the organization to which is affiliated the logged in user.

{{Form language course
|Title=
|Language=
|Academic year=
|Description=
|Level=
|Teachers=
|Price=
|Dates and times=
|Contact email=
|Contact phone=
}}

Teacher

Related form: Teacher.

{{Form_teacher
|First name=
|Last name=
|Curriculum=
|Picture=
|Mother tongue=
|Taught languages=
|Spoken languages=
|In charge from=
|In charge to=
}}

Meeting

{{Form meeting
|Title=
|Type=
|Date=
|Country=
|City=
|Address=
|Coordinates=
|Venue=
|Description=
|Webpage=
|Contact phone=
|Contact email=
}}

Advertisement

{{Form advertisement
|Title=
|Image=
|Image target url=
|Show from=
|Show to=
|Target audience=
}}

Organization member

{{Form organization member
|First name=
|Last name=
|Picture=
|Curriculum=
|Affiliated from=
|Affiliated to=
|Email=
}}

Opportunity

{{Form opportunity
|Type=
|Title=
|Provider=
|Description=
|Target country=
|Funding information=
|Requisites=
|Url=
|Deadline=
|Deadline as soon as possible=
}}

Reading suggestion

{{Form reading suggestion
|Book title=
|Book author=
|Reason=
|Book excerpt=
}}

Digital library

{{Form digital library
|Name=
|Logo=
|Description=
|Headquarters country=
|Books approximate number=
|Active from=
|Active to=
|Website=
|Opac url=
|Digital resource example url=
}}