Neil Davies
Head of Engineering at LeveragePoint
Monitor Group

Yaron Koren
Freelance Programmer

Tuesday 4:40pm - 5:40pm

Level: Data Management - Introductory

Semantic wikis are emerging as a simple but compelling way to create collaborative knowledge systems. Wikis are proven tools for collecting and organizing information collaboratively, but the unstructured nature of the information means that they lack the ability to function as true databases. A semantic wiki captures information in a structured way that allows for easier searching, querying, aggregation and understanding of the knowledge stored in the system. MediaWiki is a popular open-source application that powers many wikis on the web, such as Wikipedia. Semantic MediaWiki is an extension to it that allows for semantic markup and querying. Semantic Forms is a further extension that enables the easy creation of forms to directly add and edit pages with semantic information, helping to overcome the biggest criticism of semantic wikis, which is that they can be confusing for users to understand. Attendees will get to create a user-friendly collaborative knowledge system using the Semantic MediaWiki and Semantic Forms software. The session will cover the following:

• An introduction to semantic wikis
• The key aspects of building a knowledge system using Semantic MediaWiki
• How to capture key KM information such as the key information on a subject, who knows what and who knows whom