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- (Buffa et al., 2008) ⇒ Michel Buffa, Fabien Gandon, Guillaume Ereteo, Peter Sander, Catherine Faron. (2008). “SweetWiki: A semantic wiki.” In: Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 6(1). doi:10.1016/j.websem.2007.11.003
Subject Headings: Semantic Wiki, Semantic Wiki Engine.
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- Everyone agrees that user interactions and social networks are among the cornerstones of “Web 2.0”. Web 2.0 applications generally run in a web browser, propose dynamic content with rich user interfaces, offer means to easily add or edit content of the web site they belong to and present social network aspects. Well-known applications that have helped spread Web 2.0 are blogs, wikis, and image/video sharing sites; they have dramatically increased sharing and participation among web users. It is possible to build knowledge using tools that can help analyze users’ behavior behind the scenes: what they do, what they know, what they want. Tools that help share this knowledge across a network, and that can reason on that knowledge, will lead to users who can better use the knowledge available, i.e., to smarter users. Wikipedia, a wildly successful example of web technology, has helped knowledge-sharing between people by letting individuals freely create and modify its content. But Wikipedia is designed for people — today's software cannot understand and reason on Wikipedia's content. In parallel, the “semantic web”, a set of technologies that help knowledge-sharing across the web between different applications, is starting to gain attraction. Researchers have only recently started working on the concept of a “semantic wiki”, mixing the advantages of the wiki and the technologies of the semantic web. In this paper we will present a state-of-the-art of semantic wikis, and we will introduce SweetWiki, an example of an application reconciling two trends of the future web: a semantically augmented web and a web of social applications where every user is an active provider as well as a consumer of information. SweetWiki makes heavy use of semantic web concepts and languages, and demonstrates how the use of such paradigms can improve navigation, search, and usability.
1. Introduction
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- A semantic wiki is a wiki engine that uses technologies from the semantic Web to embed formalized knowledge, content, structures and links, in the wiki pages. Formalized knowledge is represented using semantic web frameworks and is thus accessible and reusable by web applications. Within the wiki, this knowledge can be used to propose enhanced features such as better document searching, suggesting new links, identifying acquaintance networks, dynamic content update, checking and notification, etc.
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2. Semantic wikis
- Many semantic wikis are under development, and we focus here on those related to semantic web research. We do not consider others, such as FreeBase (a commercial wiki http://www.freebase.com) or OmegaWiki (http://www.omegawiki.org), which are less relevant to semantic web research than to discussions about user interfaces and structured data.
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