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This website houses '''''OWL Wiki Forms (OWF)''''', an extension to MediaWiki, Semantic MediaWiki and Semantic Forms that facilitates the use of form-based interfaces to enter data in a semantic wiki that conforms to an ontology, as defined by some RDF, RDFS and OWL properties in the wikiIt also facilitates the creation and extension of ontologies with form-based editing of annotations on existing properties, template and forms.
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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 ontologiesThe three core aspects of OWF's approach are:
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# automatic processing of given ontologies to generate semantic browser interface specifications as [http://www.w3.org/2005/04/fresnel-info/ Fresnel] style data
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# consequent automatic processing of Fresnel style data to generate browse-and-annotate interfaces on semantic wiki's
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# the ability of wiki administrators to add "cascading" Fresnel style data to tailor the interfaces OWF automatically generates
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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]]'''''.
 
For an overview of OWF's functionality see the '''''[[OWF user manual]]'''''.

Revision as of 08:36, 21 March 2013

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

  • March 15th, 2013: OWF Wiki Forms version 0.2 released. Broadly extended and changed. Accepts URIs of external ontologies to generate interfaces for. Generates and processes Fresnel style data. You can download the MediaWiki extension code from http://is.cs.ou.nl/OWF/files/OWLwikiForms_v0.2.zip. For an overview of its functionality see the OWF user manual.

Pages for OWL Wiki Forms

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

OWL Wiki Forms publication

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)