Semantic Wiki usage

[edit] Why Semantic Wikis?

What is the territory of Semantic Wikis?

• Like normal wikis, but more sophisticated, doing everything better:
  • improved navigation
  • improved presentation
  • improved search
  • personalisation
• Making the structure declarative helps in some wiki-tasks e.g. re-factoring can benefit from having declarative underlying models/structures.
• Different areas
  • difference between Internet and Intranet
  • difference in the size of the community
• Interoperability (Wikis are good Web citizens but bad "intranet citizens")
  • between different Wikis
  • with other applications, particularly in corporate environments
• Educational effects, giving users a first introduction to knowledge based systems so that they can use more sophistaced systems later (WYSIWYG -> Wikitext)

[edit] Applications

• as a knowledge base (Wikipedia)
• for knowledge management
• for project management
• for personal information management
• information retrieval in a general sense (replacement for Google)