2009 SemanticWikisAComprehensiveIntroduction

Subject Headings: Semantic Wiki, Health Science.

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This paper provides a concise introduction to semantic wikis. It also offers pointers to useful online resources about the subject, and presents some semantic wiki examples from the health and healthcare sciences.

Articles in regular wikis have structured, formatted text (intended for humans to read and understand) and untyped hyperlinks to other related articles within the wiki (again intended for humans to follow). Semantic wikis provide the ability to capture (by humans), store and later identify (by machines) further meta-information or metadata about those articles and hyperlinks, as well as their relations.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2009 SemanticWikisAComprehensiveIntroduction	Maged N. Kamel Boulos			Semantic Wikis: A Comprehensible Introduction with Examples from the Health Sciences			http://www.academypublisher.com/jetwi/vol1/no1/jetwi01019496.pdf