Semantic Wiki System
A Semantic Wiki System is a Wiki System that can manage a Semantic Wiki.
- AKA: Semantic Wiki Engine.
- Example(s):
- AceWiki System.
- OntoWiki System.
- Semantic MediaWiki.
- Tiki Wiki.
- Knoodl.
- IkeWiki system - replaced by KiWi system (both now defunct).
- See: Traditional Wiki System.
References
2015
- http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Semantic_wiki_projects#Active
- QUOTE: The following are lists of active, defunct and proposed semantic wiki code projects.
- AceWiki.
- Artificial Memory.
- Knoodl.
- OntoWiki.
- Semantic MediaWiki - an extension to MediaWiki.
- Tiki Wiki - CMS Groupware.
- Wikidsmart - an extension to Confluence
- QUOTE: The following are lists of active, defunct and proposed semantic wiki code projects.
2013
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_wiki#Common_features
- Semantic wikis vary in their degree of formalization. Semantics may be either included in, or placed separately from, the wiki markup. Users may be supported when adding this content, using forms or autocompletion, or more complex proposal generation or consistency checks. The representation language may be wiki syntax, a standard language like RDF or OWL, or some database directly populated by the tool that withdraws the semantics from the raw data. Separate versioning support or correction editing for the formalized content may also be provided. Provenance support for the formalized content, that is, tagging the author of the data separately from the data itself, varies.
What data can get formalized also varies. One may be able to specify types for pages, categories or paragraphs or sentences (the latter features were more common in pre-web systems). Links are usually also typed. The source, property and target may be determined by some defaults, e.g. in Semantic MediaWiki the source is always the current page.
Reflexivity also varies. More reflexive user interfaces provide strong ontology support from within the wiki, and allow it to be loaded, saved, created and changed.
Some wikis inherit their ontology entirely from a pre-existing strong ontology like Cyc or SKOS, while, on the other extreme, in other semantic wikis the entire ontology is generated by users.
Conventional, non-semantic wikis typically still have ways for users to express data and metadata, typically by tagging, categorizing and using namespaces. In semantic wikis, these features still typically exist, but integrated these with other semantic declarations, and sometimes with their use restricted.
Some semantic wikis provide reasoning support, using a variety of engines. Such reasoning may require that all instance data comply with the ontologies.
Most semantic wikis have simple querying support (such as searching for all triples with a certain subject, predicate, object), but the degree of advanced query support varies; some semantic wikis provide querying in standard languages like SPARQL, while others instead provide a custom language. User interface support to construct these also varies. Visualization of the links especially may be supported.
- Semantic wikis vary in their degree of formalization. Semantics may be either included in, or placed separately from, the wiki markup. Users may be supported when adding this content, using forms or autocompletion, or more complex proposal generation or consistency checks. The representation language may be wiki syntax, a standard language like RDF or OWL, or some database directly populated by the tool that withdraws the semantics from the raw data. Separate versioning support or correction editing for the formalized content may also be provided. Provenance support for the formalized content, that is, tagging the author of the data separately from the data itself, varies.
2011
- http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Category:Semantic_wiki_engine
- A semantic wiki engine is a specific kind of wiki engine that extends the wiki's function of collaborative content management with Semantic Web technologies. It is thus also a kind of Semantic content management system. Some, but not all, semantic wikis should also be classified as Ontology editor or Semantic annotation tool. ... Note that this category is only for concrete software tools. For a general category that contains things related to semantic wikis, please see the semantic wiki.
- (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 systems. We introduce the Semantic Wiki KnowWE, that provides the possibility to define and maintain ontologies together with strong problem-solving knowledge. Thus, the wiki can be used to collaboratively build decision-support systems. These enhancements require extensions of the standard Semantic Wiki architecture by a task ontology for problem-solving and an adapted reasoning process.
2009
2008
- (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: 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. 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.
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).
- QUOTE: ... “Semantic Wiki” systems aim to combine “traditional” wiki systems with Semantic Web technology.
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.
- QUOTE: ... “Semantic Wiki” systems aim to combine “traditional” wiki systems with Semantic Web technology.
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.