User:HansOesterholt

vCard Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema
Affiliation:	Be Value
Homepage:	oesterholt.net

Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema

I'm an informaticus, working as an ICT Architect.

Be Value is a consultancy company located in the Netherlands. Its focus is primarily on integration and supporting the knowledge worker.

More about me

• You can find more about me here.

Special Interests

• The IT for people.
• How to setup a semantic wiki, so that it can be used by people that do not know much about semantic web.
• Semantic Search. How to be able to ask questions like the one above. Maybe there are specific search engines that can process such questions?

Be Value's usage for Semantic MediaWiki

This year I've started a special interest group which is interested in Semantic Web.

I discovered Semantic Wiki while searching for applications of Semantic Web on the internet. I've introduced Semantic MediaWiki at Be Value for usage as an extension to the Be Value Intranet for our consultants and commercial people. The wiki helps us keeping our consultant profiles up to date and matching them with questions from the market, helping our commercial people matching persons. Some pictures of it:

Consultant (knowledge)profiles

• At the profile page of a consultant in the Wiki, there's a link to a wiki form (developed in PLT Scheme) that acts as a WikiBot.
• It collects the semantic attributes from the 'knowledge card' of the consultant.
• The consultant can fill in the form (only the changed sections are shown) and fill in 'no knowledge', 'beginner', 'good', 'guru'.
• After filling in the form, the attributes are saved to the wiki again.

Consultant Profile in the Wiki

Starting the Wiki Form for the consultant knowledgecard

Filling in the knowledge

Matching consultants and jobs

• From the wiki, a wiki form can be started to input information on current jobs in the market.
• After filling in the job profile (which consists of a page with information on the job and the knowledge card for the job), the job profile can be saved to the wiki.
• Now, the wiki can be consulted to see if there are any matches.
• An RSS Feed is provided for consultants, so that they are being informed automatically when new jobs are added.

The wiki page from where wiki forms can be started	The jobs (that have not been "removed" or "been provided" currently stored in the wiki
Provide the Job description	What knowledge is needed for this job?	Storing the job profile to the wiki
Look at the results in the Wiki	Look at the matching people	Consultants can see (using RSS) what new jobs are there