Towards a Wiki Interchange Format (WIF)

Wikis tend to be used more and more in world-wide, intranet and increasingly even in personal settings. Current wikis are data islands. They are open for everyone to contribute, but closed for machines and automation. In this paper we define a wiki interchange format (WIF) that allows data exchange between wikis and related tools. Different from other approaches, we also tackle the problem of page content and annotations. The linking from formal annotations to parts of a structured text is analysed and described.