Semantic wiki

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A Semantic Wiki is a Wiki enhanced with technologies developed by the Semantic Web community in order to encode more knowledge than just structured text and hyperlinks. Usually this extra knowledge is available in a formal language, so that machines can (at least partially) process it. In particular, machines can calculate new facts from the given facts.

Contents 1 Purpose 2 Common Features 3 Existing Semantic Wikis 4 Related Fields 5 See also 5.1 Similar wiki engine extensions 6 External links

[edit] Purpose

As Wikis often serve as CMS or knowledge management tools, Semantic Wikis try to enhance them and allow users to make their internal knowledge more explicit and more formal, so that e. g. it can be searched in better ways than just with keywords.

Some systems are aimed at Personal Information Management, some more at knowledge management for communities.

[edit] Common Features

Common features are

• Annotated links and pages
• Enhanced searching and browsing using those annotations

[edit] Existing Semantic Wikis

The following semantic wikis have been classified within this wiki:

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[edit] Related Fields

• Ontology
• RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL

[edit] See also

• Semantic Wiki State Of The Art

[edit] Similar wiki engine extensions

Extensions of basic wiki engines in a similar direction (categorization, database-like queries):

• MediaWiki has categories; with further extensions:
  • DynamicPageList2 is a MediaWiki extension which allows the generation of lists from complex queries on categories (e.g., union, intersection) (The queries to categories functionality of this extension is a step in the direction of Semantic MediaWiki extension.);
  • OmegaWiki (former WiktionaryZ) builds a specialized database into MediaWiki.
  • See also other similar to Semantic MediaWiki MediaWiki extensions under mw:Extension:Semantic MediaWiki#Similar extensions.
• Structured wikis.

[edit] External links

• Wikipedia: Semantic wiki
• http://smwforum.ontoprise.com - SMW+ enabled (with Halo and other extensions) forum for users and developers of Semantic MediaWiki+ in a commercial or production environment