Authoring and editing processes in wiki systems are often tedious. Sheer amount of information makes it difficult for authors to organize the related information in a way that is easily accessible and retrievable for future reference. Social bookmarking systems provide possibilities to tag and organize related resources that can be later retrieved by navigating in so-called tag clouds. Usually,...

Wikis as well as collaborative tagging have been subject of very intense research last years and active discussion topics in the so-called blogsphere as well. In this paper, we propose collaborative Wiki tagging based on the idea to exploit inherent semantics of the concept of link in Wiki. The low-level integration of Wiki and collaborative tagging of web resources is expected to be effective ...

BACKGROUND A variety of topic-focused wikis are used in the biomedical sciences to enable the mass-collaborative synthesis and distribution of diverse bodies of knowledge. To address complex problems such as defining the relationships between genes and disease, it is important to bring the knowledge from many different domains together. Here we show how advances in wiki technology and natural l...

This paper shows how humans and machines can better collaborate to acquire adaptation knowledge (AK) in the framework of a case-based reasoning (CBR) system whose knowledge is encoded in a semantic wiki. Automatic processes like the CBR reasoning process itself, or specific tools for acquiring AK are integrated as wiki extensions. These tools and processes are combined on purpose to collect AK....

Some wikis support virtual communities that are built around the wiki itself (e.g., Wikipedia). By contrast, corporate wikis are not created in a vacuum since the community already exists. Documentation, organigrams, etc are all there by the time the wiki is created. The wiki should then be tuned to the existing information ecosystem. That is, wiki concerns (e.g., categories, permissions) are t...

Résumé : Le concept de wiki a dix ans cette année mais a connu récemment un grand succès grâce à Wikipedia. Cependant, dans le monde des intranets, plusieurs études ont prouvé que l'utilisation des wikis est sujette à discussion et l'acceptation de tels outils de collaboration ouverts et peu structurés n'est pas évidente. Différentes raisons peuvent expliquer ce manque d'acceptation : des raiso...

OBJECTIVE Wiki systems are gaining importance concerning the use in education, especially among young users. The aim of our study was to examine, how students of veterinary medicine commonly use wiki systems, whether they consider a veterinary wiki system useful and if they would participate in writing content. METHODOLOGY For data collection a questionnaire was provided to students (n=210) o...

Use of wikis in education reflects a shift in the education paradigm from lecture and individual homework-based to a paradigm emphasizing student engagement and the construction of knowledge through collaboration and peer-help. Existing research work on the use of wiki in collaborative writing had given mixed results. The goals of this research are to investigate whether wiki supports learning ...