SAVVY Wiki: a context-oriented collaborative knowledge management system

This paper presents a new Wiki called SAVVY Wiki that realizes context-oriented, collective and collaborative knowledge management environments that are able to reflect users’ intentions and recognitions. Users can collaboratively organize fragmentary knowledge with the help of the SAVVY Wiki. Fragmentary knowledge, in this case, implies existing Wiki content, multimedia content on the web, and so on. Users select and allocate fragmentary knowledge in different contexts onto the SAVVY Wiki. Owing to this operation, it is ensured that related pages belong to the same contexts. That is, users can find correlations among the pages in a Wiki. The SAVVY Wiki provides new collective knowledge created from fragmentary knowledge, depending on contexts, in accordance with the users’ collaborative operations. Various collaborative working environments have been developed for the sharing of collective knowledge. Most current Wikis have a collaborative editing mode to every page, as a platfor...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: WIKIS
• Authors: Takafumi Nakanishi, Koji Zettsu, Yutaka Kidawara, Yasushi Kiyoki
• Keywords: Collaborative Working Environment, Fragmentary Knowledge, SAVVY Wiki, WIKIS 2009