kiwi – a flexible platform for semantic social media applications

KiWi – A flexible platform for semantic social media applications

EduMedia Fachtagung 2009

Salzburg, Mai 2009

Dr. Sebastian Schaffert

Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft

[email protected]

http://www.kiwi-project.eu http://planet.kiwi-project.eu

Joint KiWi Workpackage Meeting, © 2008,Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research 12/03/08

KiWi Vision

Online Communities

Knowledge Management

| many different kinds of rich content(text, images, audio, video, software, processes, …)

| user and domain specific workflows and processes| sharing of content and collaboration of users


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Knowledge Management (traditional)

| „knowledge acquisition systems“| form-based, predefined processes, part of quality

management, „make people replaceable“| people are aligned with technology and organisation


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Knowledge Management (KiWi Way)

| instead: technology and organisation should be alignable with people!

| KiWi: Semantic CMS the Wiki-Way


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Knowledge Management (Wikis)

| Wikis are...| simple to use (low technologial barrier)| flexible: from a short notice over documentation to collaborative

authoring of documents| do not impose a predefined workflow (no dictate of the system) | adjust to the necessities of users

| like a piece of paper!| you can write on it, draw on it, connect things, …| workflows only by “social convention”: there are rules, but it is

possible to deviate from them if necessary (new situations, better solutions, …)


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Knowledge Management (Wikis)

| but: Wikis are rather like an empty piece of paper| well suited for creative and/or well-known tasks| no support whatsoever for users| nobody would fill his tax return on an empty piece of paper!| forms and workflows have (originally) been developed as

support!

| with growing amount of content it becomes also increasingly difficult to find the necessary information


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Knowledge Management+ Wiki-Philosophy+ Semantic Web= KiWi

| machine readable linking of content| adaption of presentation and input

| to personal preferences| to user and content context| to different kinds of content

| examples:| kinds of content: meeting minutes, resource plans, persons,

tasks, reports, ideas, ...| presentation/input: meeting minute editor, gantt diagram, user

profile, report template, ...


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The KiWi System

KiWi System: A Platform following the Wiki principles

| social media applications build on top of this platform and can benefit from

| sharing content between different kinds of applications (Wiki page can be displayed in TagIT, …)

| sharing functionality between different kinds of applications (editing, versioning, tagging, …)

| interoperability with other systems due to semantic web data formats

KiWi Applications: Wiki

KiWi Applications: TagIT

KiWi Applications: Dashboard


Conclusion & Perspectives

Conclusion

| knowledge management + wiki philosophy + semantic web = KiWi

| KiWi system – a platform for building flexible semantic social media applications following the “wiki principles”

| provides all the core functionalities| allows sharing of content between applications| allows to realise the KiWi knowledge management idea

| several applications exist to demonstrate the feasibility:| (Semantic) Wiki – collaborative creation of content| TagIT – geolocating content| Dashboard – personal startpage

Perspectives

| more functionalities:| inclusion of Sun’s “community equity” system| sophisticated personalisation features (recommendations, user

interface personalisation)| sophisticated information extraction: automatic extraction of

metadata, suggestion of tags and related content| rule-based reasoning: users will be able to write their own rules

that influence how the system behaves

| more applications:| KiWi Blog| Social Networking Platform| …

KiWi - Links

| Learn more:http://www.kiwi-project.eu

| Stay up-to-date:http://planet.kiwi-project.eu

| Try it out:http://showcase.kiwi-project.eu/KiWi/

| Download:http://kenai.com/projects/kiwi/downloads

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