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From Ontology to Semantic Wiki – Designing Annotation and Browse Interfaces for Given Ontologies

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Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces (SWCS 2014, SWCS 2013)

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Abstract

We describe a mapping from any given ontology to an editable interface specification for semantic wikis. This enables quick start-up of distributed data-sharing systems for given knowledge domains. We implement this approach in Fresnel Forms, a Protégé ontology editor plugin. Fresnel Forms processes any ontology into triples conforming to the Fresnel vocabulary for semantic browser displays. This output format also extends Fresnel with specifications for form-based semantic annotation interfaces. A GUI interface allows editing of this style. Finally, Fresnel Forms exports this interface specification to wikis built with MediaWiki and its extensions Semantic MediaWiki and Semantic Forms.

This work demonstrates Fresnel Forms by creating a wiki that replicates Wikipedia infobox displays and directly exports the triples that DBpedia indirectly derives from them. Forms assist valid user entry of this data with features such as autocompletion. This unifies infobox displays with DBpedia triples while adding assistive data entry in a unified collaborative space.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://www.wikipedia.org/.

  2. 2.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Infobox.

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    http://is.cs.ou.nl/OWF/index.php5/Fresnel_Forms.

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    http://protege.stanford.edu/.

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Templates_with_the_most_transclusions.

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    http://www.foaf-project.org/.

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    http://downloads.dbpedia.org/2014/dbpedia_2014.owl.bz2.

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    http://is.cs.ou.nl/OWF/index.php5/Fresnel_Forms.

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This research is funded by the Faculty of Management, Science and Technology of the Open University in the Netherlands. The implementation of Fresnel Forms is the result of two Bachelor Thesis group projects in the faculty’s Informatics Bachelor program: Protégé-OWL MDD Fresnel Plug-in [6] and Protégé Fresnel Forms Plugin [10]. The Fresnel Forms plugin is available for download onlineFootnote 8.

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    Lloyd Rutledge, Thomas Brenninkmeijer, Tim Zwanenberg, Joop van de Heijning, Alex Mekkering, J. N. Theunissen & Rik Bos

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Rutledge, L. et al. (2016). From Ontology to Semantic Wiki – Designing Annotation and Browse Interfaces for Given Ontologies. In: Molli, P., Breslin, J., Vidal, ME. (eds) Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces. SWCS SWCS 2014 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9507. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32667-2_4

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