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OntoWiki – A Tool for Social, Semantic Collaboration
Sören Auer1,2, Sebastian Dietzold2, and Thomas Riechert2
1University of Pennsylvania, Department of Computer and Information Science, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
auer@seas.upenn.edu
2Universität Leipzig, Institut für Informatik, Augustusplatz 10-11, D-04109 Leipzig, Germany
lastname@informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Abstract. We present OntoWiki, a tool providing support for agile, distributed knowledge engineering scenarios. OntoWiki facilitates the visual presentation of a knowledge base as an information map, with different views on instance data. It enables intuitive authoring of semantic content, with an inline editing mode for editing RDF content, similar to WYSIWYG for text documents. It fosters social collaboration aspects by keeping track of changes, allowing to comment and discuss every single part of a knowledge base, enabling to rate and measure the popularity of content and honoring the activity of users. Ontowiki enhances the browsing and retrieval by offering semantic enhanced search strategies. All these techniques are applied with the ultimate goal of decreasing the entrance barrier for projects and domain experts to collaborate using semantic technologies. In the spirit of the Web 2.0 OntoWiki implements an ”architecture of participation” that allows users to add value to the application as they use it. It is available as open-source software and a demonstration platform can be accessed at http://3ba.se.
LNCS 4273, p. 736 ff.
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