Semantic Web Dog Food

Presented at: 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008)

by Bernhard Krabina

Authorities cooperate in various ways. The Web portal www.verwaltungskooperation.at aims to share knowledge on collaboration projects. A semantic wiki approach was used to facilitate best practice documentation with Semantic Web and Web 2.0 technology. Intercommunal cooperation has a long tradition among Austrian towns, cities, and municipalities. Much like in its German-speaking neighbour countries, this issue has become a subject of increased interest to Austria and has been intensely discussed in the last years. Apart from basic analyses of intercommunal cooperation in various scientific journals or the arrangement of expert meetings; the number of practical examples of cross-municipal cooperation is growing. In 2006, the KDZ published a book on intercommunal cooperation including a description of some 50 best-practice examples. In late 2007, the decision was made to publish these examples on a Web platform in order to make them available to a broader public and to enable the static information contained in the book to become dynamic Web content, editable by interested users. The use of the latest semantic wiki technologies for the new platform www.verwaltungskooperation.at is an example of the emergence of Web 2.0 applications with semantic technologies, sometimes referred to as “Web 3.0” or “Social Semantic Web”.

Keywords: intercommunal cooperation, public administration, semantic wiki

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