Semantic Wiki State of The Art Outline

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[edit] Wikis

What are wikis? Characteristics of wikis are:

Parsimonity: Concentrate on a set of easy to understand and learn (learning by copying exmaples)
Easy Linking - by referring to the title of another page a link to an arbirztrary Wiki page can easily nbe created. After thinking long about it, this is the core wiki feature in my opinion.
Creation of new articles by just linking to them (Agile Content creation, describe on demand)
Version management - not all wikis have that
Wiki Syntax - some wikis have WYSIWYG instead
Cheap: No installation of specific tools needed (just a standard webbrowser) --> For your Boss: Low Total Cost of Ownership
You can do what you want, but it's always easy to roll back and undo

What are they used for?

Problems with non-semantic Wikis:

Loss of overview and navigational structure, i.p finding relevant entries to link to
- This needs more than full text search!
Result: Redundancies, synergies not used, people get lost in link space

Specific Problemxs concerning use <TBD>

Why/for what are Semantic Wikis used?
- better structuring
- go beyond document level

What is the Annotation Model?
- abstract model (what is the subject, what is the object, what is the predicate?)
- The vocabulary of the community using the wiki

Integration
- with other instances of the same wiki engine
- with other Smeantic Wikis
- with other tools
- with other ontologies (e.g. using standardized ontologies)

Further topics
- For assistance in semantifying references: Clustering of documents by references and content. (For slightly messy diagram of very preliminary results see [[1]])
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