I have been looking for a content management system that lets you enter and manage structured data. Something like wordpress for data. I would like to find a software solution that lets you create sites such as Crunchbase or Freebase. Unfortunately I have never found a proper solution, even though my requirements are very modest. It has to be:
- A reliable content management
- Simple and flexible user experience
- Have an active developer community
- Hosted or open sourced
- let you define entities and database fields for data
Some of the software products I have found are below:
Semantic Media Wiki
semantic-mediawiki.org
Semantic Media Wiki is an extension to the widely used MediaWiki CMS powering Wikipedia. It adds semantic annotations that allow to label different data types. You can automatically generate lists from the data and search using complex queries.
Socrata
www.socrata.com
Formerly known as Blist is something like Filemaker in the browser. You can create a (relational) database with differerent field types for structured data. Tables and Layouts can also be embedded in other websites. Unfortunately it is not really usable as a content management system.
Twiki
Twiki is, like Semantic Media Wiki, a Structured Wiki. It allows for embedding structured data within the wiki markup. Furthermore you can develop apps in the wikimarkup, such as task lists or forums.
Drupal Content Construction Kit
With the Drupal CCK you can add custom fields to existing content types.
Video Tutorial
eCrowds
eCrowds is an hosted content management system (SaaS). It comes with the option of creating structured data forms.
Open Calais
www.opencalais.com
The Open Calais Project by Thomson Reuters turns unstructured into structured data. Probably not what I am looking for.
Microformats.org
Microformats.org
Microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. The idea is to let others put the structure in your data
- Do you know any other CMS for structured data?
- Is there a wordpress plugin that handles structured data?
to be continued…
