SemWiki.org - The Semantic Wiki Community

Semantic Wikis try to combine the strengths of Semantic Web (machine processable, data integration, complex queries) and Wiki (easy to use and contribute, strongly interconnected, collaborativeness) technologies.

Goals are diverse and include:

• simple annotations of existing Wiki content;
• tools that guide users from informal knowledge contained in texts to more formal structures;
• full-fledged tools for ontology editing where the text is no longer in the focus of the system.

In the future, Semantic Wiki systems might play an important role for "knowledge acquisition", enabling non-technical users to contribute to the Semantic Web.

Upcoming Events

• October 22, 2008: Start of "Semantic Wiki" mini-series (Online Event)
• October 26, 2008: SemWiki Birds of a Feather Meeting at ISWC 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Past Events

• June 2nd, 2008: Third Workshop on Semantic Wikis: The Wiki Way of Semantics [SemWiki2008] at the 5th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) in Tenerife, Spain
• August, 21/22 or 23  2006: Second Workshop on Semantic Wikis: Wiki-based Knowledge-Engineering [WibKe2006] at the WikiSym 2006 in Odense, Denmark.
• June, 12th 2006: First Workshop on Semantic Wikis: From Wiki to Semantics [SemWiki2006] as a full-day workshop at the 3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) in Budva, Montenrego. Attendance about 50-60 people.

Community Services

• Semantic Wiki Interest Group (State of the art: semantic wiki engines, semantic wiki literature)
• SWIKIG: swikig@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de, active mailing list, over 200 people