Semantic WOS – a “Wiki on a Stick”.

A conference ontology for a semantic wiki

A conference ontology for a semantic wiki

Although I was not able to attend the The 7th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2008 this year, I felt I was there in spirit. For the past several weeks I have been helping the good people at Ontoprise put together a “Wiki on a stick” to give away at the conference. If you attended you may have picked one of these up. This is very cool, it’s a USB memory stick with a semantic wiki (SMW+) on it. When you plug it in, it launches a customized version of SMW+ with all the conference events and speaker information. I had a lot of fun building the ontology for this. I still can’t get over how fast I can develop a semantically enabled wiki with these tools. If you didn’t get one don’t despair, you can see the online version as longs as it remains up.

Also, it’s not too late to enter the The Ontoprise knowledge engineering contest and win an iPod. Check it out and while you are there you can explore the rest of the SMW Forum site and learn all about SMW+.