Towards Meta-Engineering for Semantic Wikis

Building intelligent systems is a complex task. In many knowledge engineering projects the knowledge acquisition activities can significantly benefit from a tool, that is tailored to the specific project setting with respect to domain, contributors, and goals. Specifying and building a new tool from scratch is ambitious, tedious, and delaying. In this paper we introduce a wiki-based meta-engineering approach allowing for the smooth beginning of the knowledge acquisition activities going along with tool specification and tailored implementation. Meta-engineering proposes that in a wiki-based knowledge engineering project not only the content (the knowledge base) should be developed in evolutionary manner but also the tool itself.