SemanticWiki mini-series planning session: ConferenceCall_2008_09_18 - Synthesis

Syntheses of the input and ideas transpired from the ConferenceCall_2008_09_18 planning session

A synthesis by Christoph Lange (~2008.09.29)

• see: http://semanticweb.org/wiki/SemWiki_Meeting_ISWC_2008#Hot_Topics
• ... conversation to continue at [ http://semanticweb.org/wiki/SemWiki_Meeting_ISWC_2008 the ISWC 2008 semantic wiki BOF meeting]

Syntheses of 2008.09.18 planing session chat transcript

... this is very similar to ChristophLange's synthesis (above). =ppy/2008.10.18

see: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_09_18#nid1LZ1

• From the request to all to provide 3 items on your wish-list for the semantic wiki mini-series
  • HCI:navigation of large, high-dimensional knowledge spaces - Jack Park
    • Business subject matter experts able to enter, review and validate meaningful information without having to learn any new words - Mike Bennett
    • semantic wikis for "non-experts" - Rob Frost
  • community building - DeborahMcGuinness
  • e-Science - Othel Rolle
    • e-science (especially pharma research & biomedicine) - Matthias Samwald
  • application areas of semantic wikis - Sebastian Schaffert
    • use cases and application - Harold Solbrig
    • develop set of use cases - Ted Bashor
    • uncover more implementations - Jack Park
    • survey of semantic wikis for vertical domains, e.g. health-care and life science (HCLS) - Rob Frost
    • semantic wikis and mashups (how far you are) - Peter Dolog
    • how can semantic wikis support users in their tasks (in contrast to other kinds of technology) - Sebastian Schaffert
    • application to education - Ken Baclawski
  • Knowledge Representation issues - Jack Park
    • usability vs. expressivity - Denny Vrandecic, Matthias Samwald
    • knowledge representation (expresivity vs. simplicity) - Peter Dolog
    • what dialect of OWL supported - Mike Bennett
  • recommendation and personalization in semantic wikis - Peter Dolog
  • ontology curation with semantic wikis - Harold Solbrig, Mike Bennett
  • integration of semantic resources (Protege / OOR / MediaWiki / ...) - Harold Solbrig
    • integrating_external_data - Denny Vrandecic
    • how can semantic wikis be integrated with other applications - Sebastian Schaffert
    • integration with other tools (e.g., blogs) - Ken Baclawski
    • linking wiki content to other apps - Ted Bashor
  • social networking - Othel Rolle
  • content_quality - Denny Vrandecic
  • explore opportunities for collaboration - Peter P. Yim
    • experiences with distributed collaboration - Ken Baclawski
  • do a semantic wiki & OOR session - Peter P. Yim
  • showcase the state-of-the-art - Peter P. Yim
  • Management
    • ontology management/integration challenges - Ted Bashor
  • Technology
    • server-side infrastructure to support semantic wikis - Rob Frost
  • General & Miscellaneous
    • unresolved issues - Harold Solbrig

• From offers to present:
  • Denny Vrandecic: semantic mediawiki (core system) - http://semantic-mediawiki.org
  • Sebastian Schaffert: KiWi project and/or IkeWiki - http://wiki.kiwi-project.eu
  • Harold Solbrig: "BiomedGT - SMW based ontology federation and curation" - http://biomedgt.nci.nih.gov
  • Christoph Lange: SWiM - used at http://wiki.openmath.org , general info at http://kwarc.info/projects/swim/
  • Harold Solbrig (Guoquain Jiang) - "ICD-10 Collaborative Revision Platform for the WHO" - http://informatics.mayo.edu/whodev/index.php/Main_Page (password protected ...)
  • DeborahMcGuinness: R&D efforts at TWC/RPI: wiki-based applications and pertinent foundational work - http://tw.rpi.edu/wiki/Main_Page
  • DoraiThodla: SemanticWiki Applications - Teaching, Learning, Knowledge Sharing - ???
  • Peter P. Yim, Ken Baclawski et al.: Purple MediaWiki Extention (PMWX) - http://project.cim3.net/wiki/PMWX
  • Mark Greaves: Semantic Wiki in the Halo project - http://www.projecthalo.com/
  • Panel discussion/debate: Scoping the semantic wiki R&D effort - Mark Musen, Christoph Lange, Sebastian Schaffert, Denny Vrandecic, DeborahMcGuinness, Harold Solbrig - http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2008_09_18#nid1MBO
  • Peter P. Yim et al.: Migrating the Ontolog wiki content to Purple Semantic Media Wiki - http://ontolog.cim3.net/wiki (prefer to do this towards the end of the mini-series)

• From suggested presentations:
  • Denny Vrandecic > Yaron Koren: Semantic Forms and other extensions - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms
  • Sebastian Schaffert > Josef Holy (Sun Microsystems): application of Semantic Wikis in software knowledge management -
    • Denny Vrandecic > like to hear also from users ... Sebastian Schaffert: denny: that's why I suggest Josef Holy
  • Yaron Koren > Markus Krotzsch: Semantic MediaWiki
  • Christoph Lange > Max Volkel: semantic wikis for _personal_ knowledge management
  • Peter Dolog: lessons in integration from the KIWI project > semantic wiki integration with other tools, in the enterprise context
  • Peter Dolog > mashups -
  • Li Ding > Jiebao: Blogs and Semantic Wikis - http://tw.rpi.edu/wiki/Blog:Baojie
    • Panel discussion/debate: blogs and semantic wiki, similar or different - Li Ding, Jie Bao, Christoph Lange, Sebastian Schaffert
  • Li Ding, Denny Vrandecic, Christoph Lange, DeborahMcGuinness > access control in semantic wikis
    • Yaron Koren > the Ontoprise people are working on access control for SemanticMediaWiki
  • Denny Vrandecic > someone from wikia: they are giving semantic wikis to about 800,000 potential users...
  • Sebastian Schaffert > someone from dbpedia
  • Harold Solbrig, Sebastian Schaffert > versioning (of metadata)
  • Sebastian Schaffert > Jakub Kotowski: Reasoning in semantic wikis
  • Adam Cheyer > Thomas Tunsch: "National Museums in Berlin: The Semantic Web and Wikis" - see: comment