Semantic Turkey: A browser-integrated environment for knowledge acquisition and management

Abstract

Born four years ago as a Semantic Web extension for the web browser Firefox, Semantic Turkey pushed forward the traditional concept of links&folders-based bookmarking to a new dimension, allowing users to keep track of relevant infor-mation from visited web sites and to organize the collected content according to standard or personally defined ontologies. Today, the tool has broken the boundaries of its original intents and can be considered, under every aspect, an extensible plat-form for knowledge management and acquisition. The semantic bookmarking and annotation facilities of Semantic Turkey are now supporting just a part of a whole methodology where different actors, from domain experts to knowledge engineers, can cooperate in developing, building and populating ontologies while navigating the Web. © 2010 - IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved.