OntoWiki is a free and open-source

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application, meant to serve as an

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editor and a knowledge acquisition system. It is a web-based application written in

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and using either a

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database or a Virtuoso triple store. OntoWiki is form-based rather than syntax-based, and thus tries to hide as much of the complexity of knowledge representation formalisms from users as possible. OntoWiki is mainly being developed by th
Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW) research group
at the

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, a group also known for the

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project among others, in collaboration with volunteers around the world. In 2009 the AKSW research group got a budget of €425,000 from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany for the development of the OntoWiki. In 2010 OntoWiki became part of the technology stack supporting the LOD2 (

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) project. Leipzig University is one of the consortium members of the project, which is funded by a €6.5m EU grant.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ontowiki Semantic wiki software Free integrated development environments Knowledge representation Ontology (information science)

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