Semantic Web Dog Food

Presented at: 5th Workshop on Semantic Wikis Linking Data and People (SemWiki2010)

by Víctor Codocedo, Claudia Lopez, Hernan Astudillo

Several communities have engaged recently in assembling a Body of Knowledge (BOK) to organize the discipline knowledge for learning and sharing. BOK requirements typically include representing the domain, contextualizing resources (e.g. literature), and releasing the Social Web potential to maintain and improve it. Semantic wikis are excellent tools to handle domain (ontological) representations, to relate items, and to enable collaboration. Unfortunately, creating a whole BOK (structure, content and relations) from scratch may easily lead to the "white page syndrome", given the size and complexity of the domain information. This article presents an approach to jump-start a BOK, by implementing it as a semantic wiki organized around a domain ontology. Domain representation (structure and content) are initialized by automatically creating wiki pages for each ontology concept and per digital asset; the ontology itself is semi-automatically built using natural language processing (NLP) techniques. Contextualization is initialized by automatically linking concept- and asset-pages. The proposal's feasibility is shown with a prototype for a Software Architecture BOK, built from 1,000 articles indexed by a scienti¯c digital library. The proposed approach separates the issues of domain representation, resources contextualization, and social elaboration, allowing communities to try on alternate solutions for each issue.

Keywords: automated domain ontology, body of knowledge, digital assets contextualization, semantic wiki

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