Semantic Wikis provide an original and operational infrastructure for efficiently combining semantic technologies and collaborative design activities. This text presents: a running example and its context (organization of the collections in a museum); concepts of wikis as a tool to allow computer supported cooperative work (cscw); concepts of semantic technologies and knowledge representation; ...

The Open University delivers distance learning to its students. Traditionally, its students work independently of each other. Looking to enhance their students learning, two postgraduate courses have introduced authentic, collaborative activities. This is easier to achieve now because of the availability of wikis: a lightweight, web-based collaborative authoring environment. This paper examines...

SUMMARY Community curation-harnessing community intelligence in knowledge curation, bears great promise in dealing with the flood of biological knowledge. To exploit the full potential of the scientific community for knowledge curation, multiple biological wikis (bio-wikis) have been built to date. However, none of them have achieved a substantial impact on knowledge curation. One of the major ...

Wiki systems have evolved in two different ways : semantic wikis and peer to peer wikis. Semantic wikis integrate the semantic web technologies in order to improve their structure, the search and the navigation between pages. Peer-to-peer wikis offer a support for massive collaboration, off-line editing mode and an ad-hoc collaboration. The main challenge in designing a peer-to-peer semantic wi...

Title of thesis: ANALYZING THE WIKISPHERE: TOOLS AND METHODS FOR WIKI RESEARCH Jeffrey Stuckman, Master of Science, 2010 Thesis directed by: Professor James Purtilo Department of Computer Science We present tools and techniques that facilitate wiki research and an analysis of wikis found on the internet. We developed WikiCrawler, a tool that downloads and analyzes wikis. With this tool, we buil...

Web-based tools have fundamentally revolutionized the ways of knowledge acquisition, propagation, aggregation, understanding, and analysis. This is exemplified by Wikipedia, one of the most successful Web tools that support collective knowledge management in a large user community. Semantic wikis are extensions to wikis with semantic technologies that are aimed at further facilitating better hu...

Wikis sind dabei, sich als ein Werkzeug im unternehmensinternen Wissensmanagement zu etablieren. Ein Grund hierfür ist vor allem die Hoffnung, die Externalisierung von Wissen schnell, direkt und informell unterstützen zu können. Die einfache Handhabung eines Wikis und die vergleichsweise geringen Lizenzierungs-, Installationsund Betriebskosten eines Wiki-Systems bestärken diese Hoffnung noch. D...