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This website hosts OWL Wiki Forms (OWF), an extension to MediaWiki, Semantic MediaWiki and Semantic Forms. OWF facilitates the creation of form-based interfaces on semantic wikis for entering data that conforms to given Semantic Web ontologies. The three core aspects of OWF's approach are:

1. automatic processing of given ontologies to generate semantic browser interface specifications as Fresnel style data
2. consequent automatic processing of Fresnel style data to generate browse-and-annotate interfaces on semantic wiki's
3. the ability of wiki administrators to add "cascading" Fresnel style data to tailor the interfaces OWF automatically generates

Thus, OWF makes semantic wiki interface creation more efficient by generating a default interface for given ontologies. Then the human semantic wiki stylist can further tailor this interface by adding Fresnel style that specifies only the difference between the generated default and desired interface.

For an overview of OWF's functionality see the OWF user manual.

A predecessor of OWL Wiki Forms is Semantic Friendly Forms, the result of a Bachelors student group project at the Open Universiteit. Its creators are Rens te Kloese, Henri Gerrits and Mark Rotteveel.

News

• August 28th, 2013: Protege Fresnel editor released. The Protege Fresnel editor is the result of a Bachelors Thesis project at the Open University in the Netherlands. It is a plugin voor the Protégé-OWL ontology editor. It makes a tab that generates a browsing interface specification for the current ontologies in the Protégé-OWL session. This tab also give an UML diagram-like GUI voor editing this interface specification. It can then save this interface specification in a file containing RDF triples that follow the Fresnel ontology for Semantic Browser interfaces.

• December 30th, 2013: OWF Wiki Forms version 0.2.1 released. Updated and tested for the most recent versions of MediaWiki, Semantic MediaWiki and other required extensions, and the Jena Fuseki SPARQL server. Also fixes some minor bugs and has various code improvements, including some suggested by Cameron Angus McLean and Tobias Käfer (thanks!). Download and install it via the OWF installation page. For an overview of its functionality, see the OWF user manual.

• December 9th, 2013: Gave the talk "Semantic MediaWiki and Semantic Forms" at the Semantic Registries Workshop.

• October 29th, 2013: Gave the talk "OWL Wiki Forms (OWF): A Style Language that Generates Wikis from Semantic Web Ontologies" at SMWCon Fall 2013.

• June 13th, 2013: Slides from the TouW-dag juni 2013 workshop about the Semantic Web editing tool Protégé-OWL are now on SlideShare (in Dutch)

• May 27th, 2013: Presented our paper "From Ontology to Wiki – Generating Cascadable Default Fresnel Style from Given Ontologies for Creating Semantic Wiki Interfaces" at the Workshop on Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces (SWCS2013) at ESWC 2013. (slides)

Main content of this wiki

1. OWF user manual
2. TouW-dag juni 2013 workshop
3. Masters Thesis research

Pages for OWL Wiki Forms

1. OWL Wiki Forms v0.2: installation, manual
2. OWL Wiki Forms v0.1: installation, manual

OWL Wiki Forms publications

Lloyd Rutledge. From Ontology to Wiki – Generating Cascadable Default Fresnel Style from Given Ontologies for Creating Semantic Wiki Interfaces, In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces (SWCS2013) at the 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2013), Montpellier, France, May 27th, 2013.

Lloyd Rutledge and Rineke Oostenrijk. Applying and Extending Semantic Wikis for Semantic Web Courses, In: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on eLearning Approaches for the Linked Data Age (Linked Learning 2011) at the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011), Heraklion, Greece, May 29th, 2011. (SlideShare)