Building a semantic wiki

The semantic Web vision of a "unifying logical language that enables concepts to be progressively linked into a universal Web" is part of along lineage of dreams of a universal repository of ideas: from Diderot\´s universal encyclopedia in the 18th century to Vannevar Bush\´s Memex at the beginning of the computer age to Ted Nelson\´s Xanadu in the 1970s. However, the semantic Web\´s development so far has focused primarily on metadata and carefully designed data structures. To realize Berners-Lee\´s vision, the semantic Web must capture and represent content created every day by people without special training - such content includes blogs, emails, and discussion groups. Rhizome is an experimental, open source content management framework the author have created that can capture and represent informal, human-authored content in a semantically rich manner. Rhizome aims to help bring about a new kind of commons - one of ideas. This commons wouldn\´t comprise just a web of interlinked pages of content, as is the current World Wide Web, but a web of relationships between the underlying ideas and distinctions that the content implies: a permanent, universally accessible interlinking of content based on imputed semantics such as concepts, definitions, or structured argumentation.