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A Semantic Wiki is a Wiki that has an underlying model of the knowledge described in its pages beyond structured structrued text and hyperlinks. Usually this knowledge models is available in a formal language, so that machines can (at least partially) process it. The technologies developed by the Semantic Web community build the basis for reasoning about this model. Jump to: navigation, search Wikibooks has more about this subject: Wiki Science A wiki (IPA: <wee-kee> or also <wick-ey>, also why-kie. ... In mathematics, logic and computer science, a formal language is a set of finite-length words (i. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Semantic Web is a project that intends to create a universal medium for information exchange by giving meaning (semantics), in a manner understandable by machines, to the content of documents on the Web. ...


In particular, machines can calculate new facts (e.g. relations between pages) from the facts represented in the knowledge model.

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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. Jump to: navigation, search Cms is a minor angel in Enochian occult tradition. ...


Some systems are aimed at Personal knowledge management, some more at knowledge management for communities. Personal knowledge management (PKM) is a concept that has grown out of a combination of Knowledge management (KM) and Personal information management (PIM). ...


Common Features

Common features are

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

Related Fields

This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Jump to: navigation, search RDF can refer to: Radical Dance Faction a band from the UK. Radio direction finder, a device for finding the direction to a radio source. ... ... Jump to: navigation, search Families Strigidae Tytonidae An owl is any of some 200+ species of solitary, mainly nocturnal birds of prey in the order Strigiformes. ... SPARQL (recursively, SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language) is a Semantic Web recommendation presently (as of 2005) undergoing standardization by the RDF Data Access Working Group (DAWG) of the World Wide Web Consortium. ...

Existing Semantic Wiki Prototypes

  • see Semantic Wiki State Of The Art

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Semantic Web - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1221 words)
The Semantic Web is a project that intends to create a universal medium for information exchange by giving meaning (semantics), in a manner understandable by machines, to the content of documents on the Web.
RDF Schema is a vocabulary for describing properties and classes of RDF resources, with a semantics for generalization-hierarchies of such properties and classes.
A popular application of the Semantic Web is Friend of a Friend (or FoaF), which describes relationships among people and other agents in terms of RDF.
Wiki Science:Semantic prosthetic - Wikibooks (1265 words)
Wiki HTML pages can escape the limitations of narrow perspective imposed by a limited number (usually just one) of authors and also make it easier to keep pages up to date by sharing the work load involved in the update process.
I suggest that a theoretical foundation for the science of wiki can be established by formalizing the idea of a semantic network.
However, current wiki talk pages tend to be dominated by arguments between people who are already at point B. Actual users (those who are learning from the content of the page) need a simple and quick way to mark difficult locations in a page.
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