SMW+ was an
open-source software bundle composed of the
wiki application
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MediaWiki
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along with a number of its extensions, that was developed by the
German
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software company
Ontoprise GmbH from 2007 to 2012. In 2012, Ontoprise GmbH filed for bankruptcy and went out of business. DIQA-Projektmanagement GmbH, a start-up founded by former Ontoprise employees,
now offers support for the software in SMW+, though under the name "DataWiki."
Details
SMW+'s extensions include, most notably,
Semantic MediaWiki
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and th
Halo Extension Cumulatively, SMW+ functions as a
semantic wiki
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and is also meant to serve as an
enterprise wiki
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Business and economics
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* Enterprise plc, a UK civil engineering and maintenance company
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for use within companies, for applications such as
knowledge management
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and
project management
Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process. T ...
.
The SMW+ platform was available in a number of formats including a Windows installer, Linux installer, and
VMware
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VMware's desktop software ru ...
image.
SMW+ emerged from
Project Halo
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, a research project meant to provide a platform for collaborative knowledge engineering for
domain expert
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s in
biology
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,
chemistry, and
physics
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at the first stage.
References
* ''Business applications with SMW+, a Semantic Enterprise Wiki''. Michael Erdmann, Daniel Hansch.
* ''Practical applications of Semantic MediaWiki in commercial environments - Case Study: semantic-based project management''. Daniel Hansch, Hans-Peter Schnurr. Presented at the ESTC 2009.
''User-Centered Design and Evaluation of Interface Enhancements to the Semantic MediaWiki'' Frederik Pfisterer, Markus Nitsche, Anthony Jameson and Catalin Barbu. Presented at the CHI2008 (Computer Human Interaction Conference).
''Semantic Wikis: A Comprehensible Introduction with Examples from the Health Sciences'' Maged N. Kamel Boulos. Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence, Vol. 1, No. 1, August 2009
''Towards a Collaborative Semantic Wiki-based Approach to IT Service Management'' Frank Kleiner, Andreas Abecker. Proceedings of I-SEMANTICS ’09.
External links
Article at semanticweb.com about SMW+"Semantic Wikis: Fusing the two strands of the Semantic Web"- Talk given by Mark Greaves at the ISWC 2008
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Semantic wiki software
Free software programmed in PHP
MediaWiki extensions