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saveMLAK is a wiki designed to coordinate responses to the
The project's collaboration with the Miyagi Prefectural Library was highlighted by researchers "as an example of support for libraries in the disaster area."
SaveMLAK was selected as the Semantic MediaWiki wiki of the month in June 2011. It received The Best Dataset Award on Linked Open Data Challenge Japan 2011.
Okamoto gave the keynote talk for the Wikimania 2013 conference about saveMLAK.
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
The occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on 11 March. The magnitude 9.0–9.1 (M) undersea megathrust earthquake had an epicenter in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region, and lasted approximately six minutes ...
, focusing on protecting museums, libraries, archives and kominkan
A , or citizens' public hall, is a kind of Japanese culture, Japanese cultural center. Kominkan provide structured learning programs in arts, sport, handiwork and cultural activities, to children, youth and aged people. They are generally funded an ...
s, or community centers. It was started in March 2011, a day after the earthquake and tsunami hit. Makoto Okamoto is the site's founder and main administrator. The wiki runs on the MediaWiki software, along with the extension Semantic MediaWiki.
In December 2011, the wiki had information on 19,500 facilities, 24,300 pages, and about 300 editors who made 101,200 edits.
Accolades
The project's collaboration with the Miyagi Prefectural Library was highlighted by researchers "as an example of support for libraries in the disaster area."
SaveMLAK was selected as the Semantic MediaWiki wiki of the month in June 2011. It received The Best Dataset Award on Linked Open Data Challenge Japan 2011.
Okamoto gave the keynote talk for the Wikimania 2013 conference about saveMLAK.
References
External links
*{{Official site 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami MediaWiki websites Semantic wikis