KiWi is a flexible platform for building semantic social media applications according to wiki principles. It provides core functionality like editing, versioning, tagging, and search that can be used across applications. KiWi also allows applications to share content and features. Existing applications on the KiWi platform demonstrate its capabilities, including a semantic wiki, tag-based content geolocator, and personalized dashboards. The goal of KiWi is to combine knowledge management, wiki philosophies, and semantic web technologies into an adaptable system aligned with how people work.

1. KiWi – A flexible platform for semantic social media applications EduMedia Fachtagung 2009 Salzburg, Mai 2009 Dr. Sebastian Schaffert Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft sebastian.schaffert@salzburgresearch.at http://www.kiwi-project.euhttp://planet.kiwi-project.eu

2. Joint KiWi Workpackage Meeting, © 2008,Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research 12/03/08 KiWi Vision

3. Online Communities

4. Knowledge Management many different kinds of rich content(text, images, audio, video, software, processes, …) user and domain specific workflows and processes sharing of content and collaboration of users Joint KiWi Workpackage Meeting, © 2008,Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research 12/03/08 KiWi Vision

5. Knowledge Management (traditional) „knowledge acquisition systems“ form-based, predefined processes, part of quality management, „make people replaceable“ people are aligned with technology and organisation Joint KiWi Workpackage Meeting, © 2008,Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research 12/03/08 KiWi Vision

6. Knowledge Management (KiWi Way) instead: technology and organisation should be alignable with people! KiWi: Semantic CMS the Wiki-Way Joint KiWi Workpackage Meeting, © 2008,Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research 12/03/08 KiWi Vision

7. Knowledge Management (Wikis) Wikis are... simple to use (low technologial barrier) flexible: from a short notice over documentation to collaborative authoring of documents do not impose a predefined workflow (no dictate of the system) adjust to the necessities of users like a piece of paper! you can write on it, draw on it, connect things, … workflows only by “social convention”: there are rules, but it is possible to deviate from them if necessary (new situations, better solutions, …) Joint KiWi Workpackage Meeting, © 2008,Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research 12/03/08 KiWi Vision

8. Knowledge Management (Wikis) but: Wikis are rather like an empty piece of paper well suited for creative and/or well-known tasks no support whatsoever for users nobody would fill his tax return on an empty piece of paper! forms and workflows have (originally) been developed as support! with growing amount of content it becomes also increasingly difficult to find the necessary information Joint KiWi Workpackage Meeting, © 2008,Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research 12/03/08 KiWi Vision

9. Semantic Web adds formal, machine readable semantics to the Web on a first glance: rigid structures, predefined processes but on second glance: “open world” semi structured no pre-defined structures; evolving structures! structure is never really imposed, it is just used to support the user when it is there! Joint KiWi Workpackage Meeting, © 2008,Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research 12/03/08 KiWi Vision

10. Knowledge Management+ Wiki-Philosophy+ Semantic Web= KiWi machine readable linking of content adaption of presentation and input to personal preferences to user and content context to different kinds of content examples: kinds of content: meeting minutes, resource plans, persons, tasks, reports, ideas, ... presentation/input: meeting minute editor, gantt diagram, user profile, report template, ... Joint KiWi Workpackage Meeting, © 2008,Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research 12/03/08 KiWi Vision

11. Joint KiWi Workpackage Meeting, © 2008,Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research 12/03/08 The KiWi System

12. KiWi System: A Platform following the Wiki principles provides core functionalities required in any social media system: editing, versioning tagging social networking dashboard and personalisation semantic metadata search

13. KiWi System: A Platform following the Wiki principles social media applications build on top of this platform and can benefit from sharing content between different kinds of applications (Wiki page can be displayed in TagIT, …) sharing functionality between different kinds of applications (editing, versioning, tagging, …) interoperability with other systems due to semantic web data formats

14. KiWi Applications: Wiki

15. KiWi Applications: TagIT

16. KiWi Applications: Dashboard

17. Demo!

18. Joint KiWi Workpackage Meeting, © 2008,Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research 12/03/08 Conclusion & Perspectives

19. Conclusion knowledge management + wiki philosophy + semantic web = KiWi KiWi system – a platform for building flexible semantic social media applications following the “wiki principles” provides all the core functionalities allows sharing of content between applications allows to realise the KiWi knowledge management idea several applications exist to demonstrate the feasibility: (Semantic) Wiki – collaborative creation of content TagIT – geolocating content Dashboard – personal startpage

20. Perspectives more functionalities: inclusion of Sun’s “community equity” system sophisticated personalisation features (recommendations, user interface personalisation) sophisticated information extraction: automatic extraction of metadata, suggestion of tags and related content rule-based reasoning: users will be able to write their own rules that influence how the system behaves more applications: KiWi Blog Social Networking Platform …

21. KiWi - Links Learn more:http://www.kiwi-project.eu Stay up-to-date:http://planet.kiwi-project.eu Try it out:http://showcase.kiwi-project.eu/KiWi/ Download:http://kenai.com/projects/kiwi/downloads

22. Contact Dr. Sebastian Schaffert Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft Jakob Haringer Str. 5/II A-5020 Salzburg sebastian.schaffert@salzburgresearch.at http://www.kiwi-project.eu http://planet.kiwi-project.eu KIWI © 2008, Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research