Semantic Wiki Instance

A semantic wiki instance is a wiki instance composed of semantic wiki pages.

• Context:
  • It can be managed by a Semantic Wiki System.
  • It can be supported by a Semantic Wiki Tagging Task.
  • It can be designed by a Semantic Wiki Engineering Task.
  • It can be used by a Semantic Wiki-based Semantic Tagging Task.
• Example(s):
  • Gabor Melli's RKB Wiki.
  • ProofWiki.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Wikipedia, (although it has Wikipedia Category and Wikipedia Infoboxes).
• See: Knowledge Base, SemWiki.org.

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References

2015

• (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/semantic_wiki Retrieved:2015-10-9.
  • A semantic wiki is a wiki that has an underlying model of the knowledge described in its pages. Regular, or syntactic, wikis have structured text and untyped hyperlinks. Semantic wikis, on the other hand, provide the ability to capture or identify information about the data within pages, and the relationships between pages, in ways that can be queried or exported like a database through semantic queries.

    Semantic wikis were first proposed in the early 2000s, and began to be implemented seriously around 2005. As of 2013, the best-known semantic wiki software, and the only one with significant usage on public websites, is Semantic MediaWiki.

2011

• (Baumeister et al., 2011) ⇒ Joachim Baumeister, Jochen Reutelshoefer, and Frank Puppe. (2011). “KnowWE: A Semantic Wiki for Knowledge Engineering.” In: Applied Intelligence Journal, 35(3). doi:10.1007/s10489-010-0224-5
  • QUOTE: Recently, Semantic Wikis showed reasonable success as collaboration platforms in the context of social semantic applications.

     In this paper, we present a novel approach, that interprets the concept of Semantic Wikis as a knowledge engineering environment, that effectively help to build [[decision-support ...

     We discuss these extensions in detail, and we describe a case study in the field of medical emergency systems.

2009

• http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Semantic_wiki
  • QUOTE: A Semantic Wiki is a Wiki enhanced with technologies developed by the Semantic Web community in order to encode more knowledge than just structured text and hyperlinks. Usually this extra knowledge is available in a formal language, so that machines can (at least partially) process it. In particular, machines can calculate new facts from the given facts.
• (Kamel Boulos, 2009) ⇒ Maged N. Kamel Boulos. (2009). “Semantic Wikis: A Comprehensible Introduction with Examples from the Health Sciences.” In: Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence, Vol. 1. No. 1.
  • QUOTE: Semantic wikis provide the ability to capture (by humans), store and later identify (by machines) further meta-information or metadata about those articles and hyperlinks, as well as their relations.
• (SemWiki.org, 2009) ⇒ http://www.semwiki.org/
  • QUOTE: Semantic Wikis try to combine the strengths of Semantic Web (machine processable, data integration, complex queries) and Wiki (easy to use and contribute, strongly interconnected, collaborativeness) technologies.

2008

• (Lange, 2008) ⇒ Christoph Lange. (2008). “SWiM - A Semantic Wiki for Mathematical Knowledge Management.” In: Proceedings of the 5th European semantic web conference on The semantic web: research and applications (ESWC 2008).
  • QUOTE: The problem of retrieving mathematical statements by their type and their relations to other statements is solved by semantic wikis — wikis that use semantic web technologies for knowledge representation (SemWiki 2006): Pages and links are usually typed with terms from ontologies (Oren et al., 2006. ... Semantic wikis as “community-authored knowledge models” (Schaffert, 2006) particularly support a collaborative workflow of stepwise formalisation of knowledge, ...
• (Buffa et al., 2008) ⇒ Michel Buffa, Fabien Gandon, Guillaume Ereteo, Peter Sander, and 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
  • QUOTE: ... 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.

2006

• (Schaffert, 2006) ⇒ Sebastian Schaffert. (2006). “IkeWiki: A Semantic Wiki for Collaborative Knowledge Management.” In: 1st International Workshop on Semantic Technologies in Collaborative Applications (STICA 2006).
  • QUOQTE: A “semantic wiki” extends a wiki by “semantic technologies” like RDF, OWL, Topic Map, or Conceptual Graphs. The main idea is to make the inherent structure of a wiki – given by the strong linking between pages – accessible to machines (agents, services) beyond mere navigation. This is generally done by annotating existing navigational links with symbols that describe their meaning. For example, a link from Mozart to Salzburg could be annotated with lived in or born in.

2005

• (Souzis, 2005) ⇒ Adam Souzis. (2005). “Building a Semantic Wiki.” In: IEEE Intelligent Systems, 20(5). doi:10.1109/MIS.2005.83

2004

• (Tazzoli et al., 2004) ⇒ Roberto Tazzoli, Paolo Castagna, Stefano Emilio Campanini. (2004). “Towards a Semantic Wiki Wiki Web.” In: Proceedings of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004).
  • QUOTE: We present the essential features of what we have called a Semantic Wiki Wiki Web, showing how the existing Wiki Wiki Web can be improved and how we have implemented these features in Platypus Wiki.

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