DSMW: Distributed Semantic MediaWiki

DSMW is an extension to Semantic Mediawiki (SMW), it allows to create a network of SMW servers that share common semantic wiki pages. DSMW users can create communication channels between servers and use a publish-subscribe approach to manage the change propagation. DSMW synchronizes concurrent updates of shared semantic pages to ensure their consistency. It offers new collaboration modes to semantic wiki users and supports dataflow-oriented processes. 1 Research Background: Collaborative Editing Semantic wikis allow to create and edit collaboratively semantically annotated documents. However, compared with other collaborative systems, semantic wikis do not support offline work or multi-synchronous editing [1]. In existing semantic wikis, every change in a page is immediately visible for both end users and semantic engines. However, in many cases it is necessary to change multiple pages before to make them visible. Existing semantic wikis cannot prevent users to access, navigate or qu...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: ESWS
• Authors: Hala Skaf-Molli, Gérôme Canals, Pascal Molli
• Keywords: ESWS 2010, Internet Technology, Pages, Semantic, Semantic Wiki