Planet Kiwi

The 14th of October 2010 was a very special date for the KiWi project: After more than two and a half years of development version 1.0 of the semantic collaborative knowledge management software was published. To celebrate that, the project … Continue reading →

The Vienna-based company punkt. netServices is just about to release a demo version of their PoolParty service, a SKOS-based thesaurus management tool with linked data capabilities. I had the chance to pre-read a white paper and test their service. Here … Continue reading →

During the closing session of ESWC 2009 which was held in Crete, KiWi was awarded as Best Demo of the Year amongst 23 other participants. See the showcase here and let the KiWi consortium know what you think! If you … Continue reading →

Last week the partners of the KiWi (Knowledge In a Wiki) project met in Salzburg for the 2009 Annual Meeting. Sebastian Schaffert and his team demonstrated the latest version of this semantic based framework based on wiki principles and built … Continue reading →

KiWi – Knowledge in a Wiki, Day 2 – Josef Holy from Sun Microsystems Prague led the first part of today’s use case presentation. With the KiWi semantic wiki system (or: wiki on steroids, as Josef Holy put it), they … Continue reading →

KiWi – Knowledge in a Wiki session, pt. 2: This afternoon, we turned to the Logica use case, which is dedicated to the development and optimization of KiWi as a knowledge management tool specifically tailored to the needs of project … Continue reading →

It’s been five months since the last Joint Work Package (WP) meeting in the KiWi – Knowledge in a Wiki – project. This morning, we gathered in Vienna for the next round – focus this time around will be on … Continue reading →

This morning I received an invite from Christoph Lange, Jacobs University Bremen, to attend a Birds-of-a-Feather meeting as an informal side-event/after hour to ISWC (this event label was unknown to me, but “Birds of a feather/ flock together”, so I … Continue reading →

In recent debates within the KiWi – Knowledge in a Wiki project, the need arose to further refine and find a common understanding of the type of knowledge that is (ideally) managed and processed using (semantic) wikis. One of the … Continue reading →

The IWIS Group at the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Aalborg, Denmark, have just opened up their evaluation of a tag recommender system they are building; the component is to be part of the wiki-based, semantic knowledge management system … Continue reading →