Collaborative web-publishing with a semantic wiki

Abstract

Semantic Wikis have been introduced for collaborative authoring of ontologies as well as for annotating textual and multimedia wiki content with semantic metadata. In this paper, we introduce a different approach for a Semantic Wiki based on an ontology metamodel that has been especially customized for the deployment within a wiki. For optimal usability client-side technologies for graphical user interface have been combined with a simple and intuitive semantic query language. Single fragments of a wiki page can be annotated in an interactive and rather intuitive way to minimize the additional effort that is necessary for adding semantic annotation. Thus, the productivity and efficiency of a Semantic Wiki system will open up for non expert users as well, which is important for fostering the popularity of Semantic Wiki systems. © 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.