e-HealthExpert.org - Primum non nocere

The *IkeWiki* project seems to be an attempt at trying to narrow the gap
between a "wiki" (by now a commodity) and the "semantic web". Will it be
a step closer to the semantic web at the hospital?

What they say about the project:
"IkeWiki is a new kind of Wiki (a so-called "Semantic Wiki")
developed by Salzburg Research that allows users to collaboratively
annotate pages and links between pages with semantic annotations. Such
annotations are useful because they give machines a certain amount of
"understanding" of the content that goes beyond merely displaying the
page. This information can then, for example, be used for
context-specific presentation of pages, advanced querying, consistency
verification, or drawing conclusions. It currently only works properly
with Mozilla Firefox and Opera (partly)."

What they say about their objectives:
"Our aim is that domain experts who are not proficient in the rather
complicated tools and languages (like Protegé and OWL) used on the
Semantic Web are nonetheless able to formalize their domain knowledge
and make it accessible by other Semantic Web applications.
.../... a knowledge engineer could gradually associate types with the
pages and the links between pages, thus increasingly formalizing the
knowledge represented in the Wiki. Finally, he could download the Wiki
contents as RDF or OWL ontology for further use in other applications."

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Project URL: http://ikewiki.salzburgresearch.at

If you need to refresh some concepts and definitions see:

wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
semantic web - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web
-
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21&catID=2

J. Antas