Design And Implementation Of Lightweight Semantic Wiki Engine

Wiki provides a quick, easy and open way to share knowledge. It is widely used in fields like knowledge management, project management, decision analysis, document organization, encyclopedias, and etc. Wiki is also one of the most popular web application types. Semantic Web is a kind of new technology uniting the ideal and the reality. while showing the great value in the moment, it represents the direction of the future World Wide Web. It provides us with a "data web". Inherited from wiki technology and the Semantic Web technology, Semantic Wiki will significantly improve the capabilities of information representation, retrieval, processing and storage, compared with traditional wiki. this paper designs and implements a kind of Lightweight Semantic Wiki Engine as a knowledge database or rather infrastructure platform for semantic information processing.In this paper, we make use of markup language translation technology, web technology and RDF processing technology. We design the engine as a component-oriented system to achieve stability, availability and ease of use. At first, we introduce related technologies about the Semantic Web widely, wiki engine related technologies, and describes the reason why the Semantic Web technology is revolutionary but more practical than artificial intelligence. We believe wiki technology is another important improvement of system based on hyperlink. Secondly, we research about wiki engine design technology and web technology, and find possible ways for embedding the semantic information into wiki pages. Based on the research, we design the foundational modular architecture for semantic wiki engine, syntactical and semantical grammar used in it, and also the interface for extension. In the implementation part of this paper, we describe the lexical, syntactical, and semantical analysis algorithms, user interface design, and the building of test and publishing environment. We introduce the implementation of semantic search at last and do functional test for the lightweight semantic wiki engine we desgin and implement.