Dear Semantic Wiki community, I proudly announce the completion of my diploma thesis titled “A Semantic Wiki for Mathematical Knowledge Management”, available for download from http://kwarc.eecs.iu-bremen.de/projects/swim/ pubs.html . As some of you remember, parts of this work have been presented at the Semantic Wiki workshop on ESWC 2006. Many experiences from that workshop were incorporated in my thesis, so my special thanks go to you, the semantic wiki community, for “infecting” me with so many good ideas :-)
A short outline of the thesis follows: 1. Executive Summary: SWiM is a semantic wiki for mathematical knowledge management. The mathematical knowledge is stored in the OMDoc format, so to speak, an “extended semantic MathML” 2. Foundations 2.1 Math Markup formats 2.2 Semantic Web (with a special focus on extracting RDF from XML) 2.3 wikis 2.4 semantic wikis (heavily influenced by the [EMAIL PROTECTED] workshop, quasi a short “semantic wiki state of the art” survey ;-) 2.5 Web 2.0 2.6 Math encyclopedias (e.g. PlanetMath) 3. Requirements analysis OMDoc, a somewhat different ontology language some creative ideas about a wiki for learning math 4. Architecture a system ontology for OMDoc-encoded mathematics rendering semantic math contents for presentation ideas for management of change 5. Implementation 5.1 Evaluation of several (semantic) wikis, including Semantic MediaWiki, Makna and Rhizome 5.2 Description of my implementation (online demo at http:// kwarc.eecs.iu-bremen.de/projects/swim/), based on IkeWiki 6. Critical evaluation What has been done; what is still missing? This project will be continued during my PhD, so I appreciate any comments from you. Greetings, Christoph -- Christoph Lange, http://kwarc.eecs.iu-bremen.de/clange/, ICQ# 51191833 _______________________________________________ swikig mailing list swikig@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/mailman/listinfo/swikig
