Collaborative Knowledge Management, powered by the Semantic Web
Wikis and social software have revolutionized the ways we create and distribute knowledge. The Semantic Web has already begun to transform the ways we maintain, discover and share knowledge across platforms.
The KiWi - "Knowledge in a Wiki" - project proposes a new approach to knowledge management that combines the wiki philosophy with the intelligence and methods of the Semantic Web.
Pages to get you started:
* KiWi-Vision: An introduction to KiWi's core ideas, ideal for non-technical audiences.
* KiWi-System: Learn how KiWi aims to break system and information boundaries!
* The Use Cases: Of particular interest for businesses and people from the industry.
* KiWi is a blogger! Read what the project members have been up to.
* Project Wiki: Wiki and internal workspace for KiWi project members (NOT identical with KiWi).
Generic Model Organism Database project, a collection of open source software tools for creating and managing genome-scale biological databases. You can use it to create a small laboratory database of genome annotations, or a large web-accessible community database. GMOD tools are in use at many large and small community databases.
Social Science Aspects of the iPlant Collaborative
The purpose of the social science arm of iPlant is three-fold. First, social science research can be leveraged to enhance development of iPlant collaborative tools. Second, social science research can help to enhance adoption and diffusion of the iPlant collaborative. Third, the iPlant collaborative provides a unique opportunity to collect data in order to study how a collaborative such as this evolves and, more importantly, sustains itself over time.
Veropedia is a collaborative effort by a group of Wikipedians to collect the best of Wikipedia's content, clean it up, vet it, and save it for all time. These articles are stable and cannot be edited. The result is a quality stable version that can be trusted by students, teachers, and anyone else who is looking for top-notch, reliable information.
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