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→Cargo vs Semantic Mediawiki? (3/25/2016)
I recently learned about Cargo, which claims to be a more straightforward version of SMW. see the [https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/w/images/9/9a/Cargo_and_the_future_of_SMW.pdf slides] of a presentation given at the spring 2015 SMWCon, and the Cargo extension page's [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cargo/Cargo_and_Semantic_MediaWiki comparison] page. The lead author of the extension, Yaron, is a member of the SMW community, and so Cargo is likely pretty legit. Now I'm not sure which is better...
After some more deliberation, I think Cargo wins. Cargo's querying syntax is more like SQL (which is actually useful and pretty easy to learn), and Cargo also doesn't deal with all of the property declarations that Semantic Mediawiki requires. Also, Cargo has native support for JSON exporting, while SMW doesn't (and any extensions that provide such support are pretty stale).
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