Collaborative Ontology Construction Using Template-Based Wiki for Semantic Web Applications

Collaborative ontology construction and management have become an important issue for allowing domain experts to build domain knowledge that are needed for Semantic Web applications. However, it is normally a difficult task for domain experts to create an ontology-based model and to produce knowledge elements based on the model. In this paper, we propose a Wiki-based environment where domain experts can easily and collaboratively organize domain knowledge. In this approach, templates can be defined and associated with ontology to enable users to arrange knowledge components in a Wiki pages and to store them based on an ontology-based model. We have developed and tested a Template-based Semantic Wiki for u-health applications.