1. Semantic Wikis Visual Knowledge, Inc. Ontologizing the Ontolog Forum
Where do Semantic Wikis fit?
Conor Shankey
CEO
July 6, 2006
Visual Knowledge, Inc.
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2. Overview A key platform for the Ontolog Forum is the CIM3 Wiki
The Ontolog Forum is a Community of Interest/Practice
Overview of Semantic Wiki
Proposal:
80 / 20 rule start by “ontoligizing” or structuring the most important things in the Forum
Utilize a semantic wiki to let the community convert unstructured knowledge into structured knowledge
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3. The Ontolog Forum Ontolog wiki is the central platform for organizing
Meetings/Presentations
Discourse
Information about people
Presentations, Documents, Audio Files, Ontologies
Focal Points appear to be regular presentations
Key “concepts” are all hyperlinked via wiki words
Works extremely well by letting community collaboratively integrate knowledge
Hard to find things of interest
if you don’t know where something is you resort to hunting and word searching
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4. The original wiki idea
“A web site where anybody could create/edit a web page”
Structure
is not pre-determined
invented & evolved by community
neither top down or bottom up
Quick collaborative writing
Non-linear Hypertext
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5. Simplicity Additional Notions Very simple markup for authors
Any page can be immediately revised assuming you have the right privileges
All changes are audited and transparent to the community
“Concepts” in text can immediately become active resources (pages/links)
Simplicity
articles
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6. Benefits of the wiki idea
Distinct concepts or topics are built on the fly
Discourse forms around or in the context of a topic
Eliminates serialized document work flow
Team or community members can immediately see commentary in the context of a topic
Consensus
Agility
Cohesion
Speed
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7. Limitations for Open Forum?
Topics or concepts lack semantics
A WikiWord is just a WikiWord
The forum is a flat network of anonymous concepts
Concepts lack type or the ability to describe common properties
Lack of common properties inhibits ability to
Search for events through a calender, date criteria, subject or presenter
Quantify value of resources based on usefulness, subject area, application area
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8. Semantics to the rescue
Different concepts have different properties
Unique attributes like
date, start/end time, audience rating, etc.
Modification date
Unique Relationships
Presenter
Attendees
Creator
Resources related to subject area
Ability to organize concepts based on classification mechanism
Aggregation of complex concepts
“Is Part Of” types of relationships
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9. Semantics to the rescue
Phrases having different meanings in different contexts
Water on mars?
Food
Space Exploration
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10. VK Semantic Wiki Wiki concepts are just elements of an ontology
Now wiki concepts have formal properties
Enables semantic searching
Security becomes deeply integrated into wiki
Customized Wiki Views
Driven by ontology
Driven by library of visual templates
Integrated change management
Federated semantic wikis
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11. Proposal – 80/20 rule Start with the easy stuff
Events
People
“Black Box” Documents
Powerpoints, audio files, PDFs
Identify basic properties
Structure key items iteratively
Created faceted search ability to find most useful skeletal information
Let the community grade, rate and organize properties on resources, presenters, etc..
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12. FOAF Details
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13. Semantic Search
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14. Ontology Management
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15. Custom View Editor
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