Semantic Wikis have demonstrated the power of combining Wikis with Semantic Web technology. The KiWi system goes beyond Semantic Wikis by providing a flexible and adaptable platform for building different kinds of Social Semantic Software, powered by Semantic Web technology. While the KiWi project itself is primarily focussed on the knowledge management domain, this demonstration shows how KiWi...

The motivation of semantic wikis is to make acquisition, maintenance, and mining of formal knowledge simpler, faster, and more flexible. However, most existing semantic wikis have a very technical interface and are restricted to a relatively low level of expressivity. In this paper, we explain how AceWiki uses controlled English — concretely Attempto Controlled English (ACE) — to provide a natu...

Wikis are popular tools for creation and sharing of content. Integrated reputation systems allow to assess expertise and reliability of authors and thus to support trust in the wiki content. Yet, results from our empirical study indicate that the disclosure of user reputation evokes privacy issues. As a solution for this conflict between the need to evaluate trustworthiness of users and protect...

Despite the popularity of public (e. g., Wikipedia) and corporate wikis (e. g., Bluepedia; cf. Due08), there is very little empirical research on the latter (for notable exceptions, see AB08). On the one hand, this is due to the fact that organizations are generally reluctant to foreclose unstructured data which may contain any information, from cafeteria opening hours to next-generation produc...

In this position paper we analyze the similarities amongst folksonomies, semantic wikis, and ontology building; we also propose an alignment and orchestration of ontologies representing these scenarios. We argue that such alignment enables a more direct application of folksonomybased approaches over these set-ups. The rationale behind folksonomies is shared across environments such as collabora...

Collaborative writing and editing typically use annotations to coordinate edition tasks, comment the content, add relevant references, or clarify confusing content. Despite that wikis are among the most widely used hypertext systems for performing such collaborative activities, they have little support to annotations. In this paper, we propose to use spatial hypertext layers as the solution for...

Semantic Wikis have demonstrated the power of combining Wikis with Semantic Web technology. The KiWi system goes beyond Semantic Wikis by providing a flexible and adaptable platform for building different kinds of Social Semantic Software, powered by Semantic Web technology. This article describes the main functionalities and components of the KiWi system with respect to the user interface and ...

This report describes the state of the art in both Semantic Desktops and Semantic Wikis. The surveyed systems are compared to each other and related R&D issues are outlined. Emphasis is given especially in possible usage of Semantic Wikis in the software engineering domain. Project co-funded by the European Commission under the “Information Society Technology” Programme, Framework Programme 6. ...