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[tools-yak@collab] Re: auto-linking Wiki based on an ontology

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From: Murray Altheim <m.altheim@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 23:03:08 +0100
Message-id: <4115519C.3020801@open.ac.uk>
Eugene Eric Kim wrote:
> I had coffee with Dorai today, and was inspired to write down an idea
> that I've been toying with for a while.  It's for a Wiki that
> autolinks pages based on an ontology rather than on WikiWords or
> FreeLinks.  My notes are at:
> 
>   http://www.eekim.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MarkupFreeAutoLinkingWiki    (01)

Eugene,    (02)

I've also been thinking about this kind of thing. My approach was
to consider that one of the problems with wikis is that any given
page is not really about *one* subject (i.e., the title) but about
potentially many different subjects. It occurs to me to use the
existing Dublin Core DC.subject approach to embed <meta> keyword
content within the wiki pages, then have a harvester build up the
wiki index from that, not simply from the page titles. This would
work pretty well and be easily brought into a Topic Map navigator.
My only problem in implementing such a beast is that I'm already
busy with an entirely different project. The two projects could
meet in the middle, but I don't have the time to begin hacking a
wiki tool right now...    (03)

Murray    (04)

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The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK               .    (05)

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