Semantic MediaWiki publications

Table of Contents

This page lists papers and presentations involving Semantic MediaWiki. Note that there is also a page about (non-scientific) press coverage of the project.

The main publication about the software as such is:

• Markus Krötzsch, Denny Vrandečić, Max Völkel, Heiko Haller, Rudi Studer. Semantic Wikipedia. In Journal of Web Semantics 5/2007, pp. 251–261. Elsevier 2007.

Journal and conference papers

There are many related papers and presentations about SMW and its applications. A rather extensive list can be found by searching Google Scholar for papers that cite the above. Below is an incomplete list of works that are specifically related to SMW (newest at the top):

2023

• (Journal paper) Bernhard Krabina. Building a Knowledge Graph for the History of Vienna with Semantic MediaWiki. Journal of Web Semantics Volume 76, April 2023, 100771 (2023). DOI

• (Journal paper) Marco Falda, Manfredo Atzori, Maurizio Corbetta. Semantic wikis as flexible database interfaces for biomedical applications. Sci Rep 13, 1095 (2023). DOI Wikidata

2018

• (Conference paper) Riku Nykänen, Tommi Kärkkäinen. A Knowledge Interface System for Information and Cyber Security Using Semantic Wiki. International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, 2018.

• (Journal paper) Claudio Bergamini, Filippo Bosi, Antonio Corradi, Carlos Roberto De Rolt, Luca Foschini, Stefano Monti, Maria Seralessandri. LocalFocus: A Big Data Service Platform for Local Communities and Smarter Cities. IEEE Communications Magazine (Volume 56, Issue 7, July 2018).

• (Journal paper) Angelo Di Iorio, Davide Rossi. (2018) Capturing and managing knowledge using social software and semantic web technologies. Information Sciences, Volume 432, March 2018.

2017

• (Journal paper) Mohammad Hadi Hedayati, Mart Laanpere, Mohammad Arif Ammar. Collaborative ontology maintenance with concept maps and Semantic MediaWiki. International Journal of Information Technology. September 2017, Volume 9, Issue 3.

• (Journal paper) Samuel Lampa, Egon Willighagen, Pekka Kohonen, Ali King, Denny Vrandečić, Roland Grafström, Ola Spjuth. (2017). RDFIO: extending Semantic MediaWiki for interoperable biomedical data management. Journal of Biomedical Semantics 8:35. (Wikidata Q38599953).

• (Journal paper) Davide Gherdevich. PolimaWiki: un site contributif pour l’étude du pouvoir des listes au Moyen Âge. Médiévales, 2017/2 (n° 73).

• (Conference paper) Fernando Aguilar Gómez, Jesús Marco de Lucas, Esther Pertinez, Aida Palacio. Combined use of semantics and metadata to manage Research Data Life Cycle in Environmental Sciences. 19th EGU General Assembly, EGU2017 (23-28 April 2017 , Vienna, Austria)

2016

• (Journal paper) Imad Abugessaisa, Hisashi Shimoji, Serkan Sahin, Atsushi Kondo, Jayson Harshbarger, Marina Lizio, Yoshihide Hayashizaki, Piero Carninci, Alistair Forrest, Takeya Kasukawa, Hideya Kawaji. (2016). FANTOM5 transcriptome catalog of cellular states based on Semantic MediaWiki. Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation. (Wikidata Q28596481).

• (Conference paper) Riku Nykänen, Tommi Kärkkäinen. (2016). Supporting Cyber Resilience with Semantic Wiki. OpenSym 2016 (17 August 2016, Berlin, Germany).

• (Conference paper) Tobias Weller, Maria Maleshkova. Capturing and Annotating Processes using a Collaborative Platform. WWW Conference 2016 (April 11–15, 2016, Montréal, Québec, Canada). ACM 978-1-4503-4144-8/16/04.

• (Conference paper) Matthias Frank. Integrating Big Spatio-Temporal Data Using Collaborative Semantic Data Management. International Conference on Web Engineering 2016.

2015

• (Conference paper) Niklas Laxström, Antti Kanner. (2015). Multilingual Semantic MediaWiki for Finno-Ugric dictionaries. First International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages (16 January 2015, Tromsø, Norway).

• (Conference paper) Felix Michel, Yolanda Gil, Varun Ratnakar, Matheus Hauder. A Task-Centered Interface for On-Line Collaboration in Science. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Companion (March 29 - April 1, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia, USA).

2014

• (Conference paper) Simon Walk, Markus Strohmaier. Characterizing and Predicting Activity in Semantic MediaWiki Communities. Third International Workshop on Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces, 2014 (October 19-23, 2014, Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy).

• (Conference paper) Karima Haddou-Ou-Moussa, Ute Sondergeld, Philipp Mayr, Peter Mutschke, Marc Rittberger. (2014). Assessing Educational Research – An Information Service for Monitoring a Heterogeneous Research Field. Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2014 Proceedings (16-20 June 2014, Zadar, Croatia).

• (Journal paper) Bijan Khazai, Tina Kunz-Plapp, Christian Büscher, Antje Wegner. (2014). VuWiki: An Ontology-Based Semantic Wiki for Vulnerability Assessments. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 10.1007/s13753-014-0010-9.

• (Conference paper) A. Caglayan, L. Cassani, T. Clark, J. Alavedra, V. Bharadwaj, N. Lee, J. Parkes. (2014) Semantic enrichment and reasoning for mobile data collection of sociocultural data. Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics 2014: 5th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (19-23 July 2014, Krakow, Poland).

2013

• (Conference paper) Basil Ell, Christoph Schindler, Marc Rittberger. (2013). Semantically enhanced interactions between heterogeneous data life-cycles: analyzing educational lexica in a virtual research environment. In Emmanouel Garoufallou, Jane Greenberg, Proceedings of the 7th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference, Pages: 277-288, Springer, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Thessaloniki, November, 2013.

• (Conference paper) Bruno Bon, Krzysztof Nowak. (2013). Wiki Lexicographica. Linking Medieval Latin Dictionaries with Semantic MediaWiki. In Electronic lexicography in the 21st century: thinking outside the paper. Proceedings of the eLex 2013 conference (17-19 October 2013, Tallinn, Estonia).

• (Journal paper) Cord Spreckelsen, Sonja Finsterer, Jan Cremer, Hennig Schenkat. (2013). Can Social Semantic Web Techniques Foster Collaborative Curriculum Mapping In Medicine?. Journal of Medical Internet Research 2013;15(8):e169.

• (Conference paper) Yolanda Gil, Angela Knight, Kevin Zhang, Larry Zhang, Ricky Sethi. (2013). An Initial Analysis of Semantic Wikis. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.

• (Conference paper) Christoph Schindler, Basil Ell, Marc Rittberger. (2013). Virtual Research Environment SMW-CorA and its Capacities for Interaction in Social Science and Humanties Research – Using the Example of History of Education. In H.-C. Hobohm, Informationswissenschaft zwischen virtueller Infrastruktur und materiellen Lebenswelten. Tagungsband des 13. Internationalen Symposiums der Informationswissenschaft, vwh, Glückstadt, March 2013.

2012

• (Journal paper) Olga Tcheremenskaia, Romualdo Benigni, Ivelina Nikolova, Nina Jeliazkova, Sylvia E Escher, Monika Batke, Thomas Baier, Vladimir Poroikov, Alexey Lagunin, Micha Rautenberg and Barry Hardy (24 April 2012), OpenTox predictive toxicology framework: toxicological ontology and semantic media wiki-based OpenToxipedia. Journal of Biomedical Semantics20123(Suppl 1):S7. (Wikidata Q27921857)..

• (Conference paper) Christoph Schindler, Basil Ell, Marc Rittberger. (2012). Intra-linking the Research Corpus: Using Semantic MediaWiki as a lightweight Virtual Research Environment. In Meister, Jan Christoph; Schönert, Katrin; Lomsché, Bastian; Schernus, Wilhelm; Schüch, Lena; Stegkemper, Meike, Digital humanities 2012, Pages: 359-362, Hamburg University Press, Hamburg

• (Journal paper) Michael C. Madison, Andrew J. Cowell, R. Scott Butner, Keith Fligg, Andrew W. Piatt, Liam R. McGrath, Peter C. Ellis. (2012). Knowledge Encapsulation Framework for Technosocial Predictive Modeling. Security Informatics, Special Issue on Technosocial Predictive Analytics.

• (Conference paper) Livingston O, Dillon H, Halverson M, Antonopoulos C, Madison M, Lucas R. 2012. Do We Really Know How Much It Costs to Construct High Performance Buildings? ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings.

• (Journal paper) Benjamin M. Good, Erik L. Clarke, Salvatore Loguercio and Andrew I. Su. Building a biomedical semantic network in Wikipedia with Semantic Wiki Links. In Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation (2012).

• (Journal paper) Sujai Kumar, Philipp H. Schiffer, Mark Blaxter. 959 Nematode Genomes: a semantic wiki for coordinating sequencing projects. In Nucleic Acids Res. 2012 40: D1295-D1300.

• (Journal paper) Dan M. Bolser, Pierre-Yves Chibon, Nicolas Palopoli, Sungsam Gong, Daniel Jacob, Victoria Dominguez Del Angel, Dan Swan, Sebastian Bassi, Virginia González, Prashanth Suravajhala, Seungwoo Hwang, Paolo Romano, Rob Edwards, Bryan Bishop, John Eargle, Timur Shtatland, Nicholas J. Provart, Dave Clements, Daniel P. Renfro, Daeui Bhak, and Jong Bhak. MetaBase—the wiki-database of biological databases Nucleic Acids Res. 2012 40: D1250-D1254.

• (Conference paper) Corley CD, Brigantic RT, Lancaster MJ, Chung JS, Noonan CF, Schweighardt JR, Brown SD, Cowell AJ, Fligg AK, Piatt AW et al.. 2011. BioCat: Operational Biosurveillance Model Evaluations and Catalog. Supercomputing 2011, Computational Biosurveillance Workshop.

• (Journal paper) Causer, Tim, and Valerie Wallace. 2012. Building A Volunteer Community: Results and Findings from Transcribe Bentham. In Digital Humanities Quarterly 6.2.

• (Conference paper) Ma J., Yao W., Zhang Z., Nummenmaa J. (2012) Using a Semantic Wiki to Improve the Consistency and Analyzability of Functional Requirements. In: Skersys T., Butleris R., Butkiene R. (eds) Information and Software Technologies. ICIST 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 319. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

2011

• (Conference paper) Fariz Darari and Ruli Manurung. 2011. LinkedLab: A Linked Data platform for Research Communities. In Proceedings of the Advanced Computer Science and Information System (ICACSIS), 2011 International Conference, (Jakarta, Indonesia, December 17-18, 2011).

• (Journal paper) Li JW, Robison K, Martin M, Sjodin A, Usadel B, Young M, Olivares EC, Bolser DM: The SEQanswers wiki: a wiki database of tools for high-throughput sequencing analysis. Nucleic Acids Res 2011.

• (Journal paper) Li, Y., Dong, M., & Huang, R. 2011. Designing Collaborative E-Learning Environments based upon Semantic Wiki: From Design Models to Application Scenarios. In Journal of Educational Technology & Society 14 (4), pp. 49–63.

• (Journal paper) Michael Cariaso and Greg Lennon: SNPedia: a wiki supporting personal genome annotation, interpretation and analysis Nucleic Acids Research 2011.

• (Conference paper) Isto Huvila. Being Formal and Flexible: Semantic Wiki as an Archaeological e-Science Infrastructure. In Revive the Past: Proceeding of the 39th Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (Beijing, April 12-16, 2011).

• (Journal paper) Denny Vrandečić, Varun Ratnakar, Markus Krötzsch, Yolanda Gil. Shortipedia: Aggregating and Curating Semantic Web Data. In Journal of Web Semantics 9 (3), pp. 334–338. Elsevier 2011.

• (Short Paper) Katkov, Y., Pokoptsev, D. Semantic Social Profile - a Semantic Boost for the Social Information in MediaWiki, International Workshop on User Profile Data on the Social Semantic Web, ESWC 2011, Heraclion, Crete, Greece, May 30, 2011.

• (Conference paper) Lloyd Rutledge, Rineke Oostenrijk. Applying and Extending Semantic Wikis for Semantic Web Courses, International Workshop on eLearning Approaches for the Linked Data Age, ESWC 2011, Heraclion, Crete, Greece, May 29, 2011.

2010

• (Conference paper) Jiang G, Solbrig HR, Iberson-Hurst D, Kush RD, Chute CG. AMIA Jt Summits Transl Sci Proc. 2010 Mar 1;2010:11-5. A Collaborative Framework for Representation and Harmonization of Clinical Study Data Elements Using Semantic MediaWiki. (Wikidata Q33828213).

• (Conference paper) Alquier, L., Schultz, T., and Stephens, S. 2010. Exploration of a Data Landscape using a Collaborative Linked Data Framework. In Proceedings of the The Future of the Web for Collaborative Science, WWW2010 (Raleigh, North Carolina, April 26, 2010)

• (Journal paper) Bernhard Krabina: A Semantic Wiki on Cooperation in Public Administration in Europe. In: Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Volume 8 - Number 3 - Year 2010, p 42-45, ISSN: 1690-4524, March 2010.

• (Conference paper) Cowell AJ, RS Jensen, ML Gregory, PC Ellis, AK Fligg, LR McGrath, KA O'Hara, and EB Bell. 2010. Collaborative Knowledge Discovery & Marshalling for Intelligence & Security Applications. In IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2010), pp. 233-238. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ.

• (Conference paper) Bratsas C., Tzalavra A., Vescoukis V., Bamidis P. (2010) Using Social Semantic Web Technologies in Public Health: A Prototype Epidemiological Semantic Wiki. In: Bamidis P.D., Pallikarakis N. (eds) XII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2010. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 29. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

2009

• (Workshop paper) Alquier, L., McCormick, K., and Jaeger, E. 2009. knowIT, a semantic informatics knowledge management system. In Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (Orlando, Florida, October 25 – 27, 2009). WikiSym ’09. ACM, New York, NY, 1-5. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1641309.1641340

• (Conference paper) Bernhard Krabina: A Semantic Wiki on Cooperation in Public Administration in Europe. In: 7th International Conference on Politics and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: PISTA 2009, July 2009.

• (Conference paper) Cowell AJ, ML Gregory, EJ Marshall, and LR McGrath. 2009. Knowledge Encapsulation Framework for Collaborative Social Modeling. In AAAI Spring Symposium on Predictive Analytics. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA.

• (Conference paper) McGrath LR, AJ Cowell, ML Gregory, and EJ Marshall. 2009. Automated Knowledge Annotation for Dynamic Collaborative Environments. In The Proceedings of the 22nd International FLAIRS Conference. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Sanibel Island, FL.

• (Workshop paper) Cowell AJ, ML Gregory, EJ Marshall, and LR McGrath. 2009. Collaborative Knowledge Discovery Environments. In The Changing Face of Digital Science - New Practices in Scientific Collaboration Workshop at CHI 2009. ACM Press, New York, NY.

• (Conference paper) Malone EL, AJ Cowell, and RM Riensche. 2009. The Future Interaction of Science and Innovation Policy for Climate Change and National Security. In Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy. IEEE Computer Society, Atlanta, GA.

• (Workshop paper) Haack JN, AJ Cowell, AK Fligg, EJ Marshall, LR McGrath, and ML Gregory. 2009. Agent-Based Knowledge Discovery for Modeling and Simulation. In 3rd International Workshop on Distributed Agent-Based Retrieval Tools. IEEE Computer Society Press, Milan, Italy.

• (Journal paper) Robertson, Bruce. 2009. Exploring Historical RDF with Heml. In Digital Humanities Quarterly 3.1.

• (Conference paper) Sanfilippo AP, AJ Cowell, EL Malone, RM Riensche, JJ Thomas, SD Unwin, PD Whitney, and PC Wong. 2009. Technosocial Predictive Analytics in Support of Naturalistic Decision Making. In Proceedings of NDM9, the Ninth International Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making. British Computer Society, London, United Kingdom.

• (Journal paper) Andreas Blumauer, Bernhard Krabina: Nutzenpotenziale des „Social Sematic Web“ im öffentlichen Sektor am Beispiel semantischer Wikis. In: Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik 46(2009)265, S. 29-35.

• (Conference paper) Smart P.R., Bao J., Braines D., Shadbolt N.R. (2010) Development of a Controlled Natural Language Interface for Semantic MediaWiki. In: Fuchs N.E. (eds) Controlled Natural Language. CNL 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5972. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

2008

• (Conference paper) Bernhard Krabina: A Semantic Wiki on Cooperation in Public Administration. In: Tangible Results and New Perspectives: Conference Proceedings of the 6th Eastern European eGovernment Days, ed. by Makolm, Leitner, Orthofer, Traunmüller, Austrian Computer Society, Prague, Czech Republic 2008. Presentation

• (Conference paper) Passant A., Laublet P. (2008) Combining Structure and Semantics for Ontology-Based Corporate Wikis. In: Abramowicz W., Fensel D. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

2007

• (Journal paper) Markus Krötzsch, Denny Vrandecic, Max Völkel, Heiko Haller, Rudi Studer. Semantic Wikipedia. In Journal of Web Semantics 5/2007, pp. 251–261. Elsevier 2007. (Wikidata Q27826821).

2006

• (Conference Paper) I. Millard, A. Jaffri, H. Glaser, and B. Rodriguez. Using a Semantic MediaWiki to Interact with a Knowledge Based Infrastructure Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, 2nd - 6th October 2006, Podebrady, Czech Republic, 2006.

• (Conference paper) Max Völkel, Markus Krötzsch, Denny Vrandečić, H. Haller, R. Studer. Semantic Wikipedia, presented at WWW2006, (Wikidata Q27680376).
  • Presentation slides as PDF

• (Conference paper) Markus Krötzsch, Denny Vrandečić, and Max Völkel. “Semantic MediaWiki”. In Isabel Cruz, Stefan Decker, Dean Allemang, Chris Preist, Daniel Schwabe, Peter Mika, Mike Uschold, Lora Aroyo, eds.: Proceedings of the 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-06). Springer 2006. (Wikidata Q28916707).

2005

• (Conference paper) Markus Krötzsch, Denny Vrandečić, and Max Völkel. Wikipedia and the Semantic Web - The Missing Links, First International Wikimedia Conference, Wikimania2005, Frankfurt, Germany. (Wikidata Q28831522).

Talks, panels and demonstrations

• (Presentation) Jeroen De Dauw, Managing data in MediaWiki, FOSDEM 2012, (Brussels, Belgium, February 5, 2012) - Slides

• (Presentation) Christoph Schindler, Basil Ell. (2012). Semantic MediaWiki for Collaborative Corpora Analysis: Analyzing Educational Reference Books in a Virtual Research Environment. Digital Humanities 2012. Peer-reviewed abstract.

• (Presentation) Alquier, L., Driving a Linked Data Framework with Semantic Wikis, Bio-IT World 2011, (Boston, Massachussetts, April 12, 2011) - Slides

• (Poster/Demo) Bernhard Krabina: A Semantic Wiki on Cooperation in Public Administration. Proceedings of the Poster and Demonstration Session at the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008), Karlsruhe 2008.

• (Presentation and panel) Markus Krötzsch and Denny Vrandečić. Wikipedia and the Semantic Web, part 2, Second International Wikimedia Conference, Wikimania2006, Cambridge, MA, USA.

• (Poster/Demo) Markus Krötzsch, Denny Vrandečić, Max Völkel, Heiko Haller, and Rudi Studer. Semantic Wikipedia (ESWC2006 demo), European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC2006, Budva, Montenegro. Best Demo Poster Award.

• (Presentation) Web 2.0, Social Tagging & Co at the AKWM in Karlsruhe.

Other

• (Ph.D. thesis) Basil Ell, User Interfaces to the Web of Data based on Natural Language Generation. Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften (WIWI), Institut für Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), 2015.

  "The core idea of the Semantic Web vision is the evolution from a Web of human-readable pages to a machine-interpretable Web of Data. We explore how Virtual Research Environments support research interactions with RDF data. Natural Language Generation is applied to improve user interfaces to the Web of Data: we present a method to verbalize SPARQL queries and a language-independent approach to induce RDF verbalization templates from a parallel corpus of text and data."

• (Master's thesis) Simon Heimler. Schema-Driven Development of Semantic MediaWikis. Hochschule Augsburg, University of Applied Sciences, 2015.

See also

• Talks and publications
• In the press