WibKE2006 CFP

Call for papers for the WibKE2006
2nd Workshop on Semantic Wikis: title:=WibKE2006: Wiki-based Knowledge Engineering

co-located with
 * the 2nd International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym2006)
 * ACM HyperText 2006 (http://www.ht06.org/)

August 21-23, 2006, has location city::Odense, has location country::Denmark

WibKE2006 is the second workshop on Semantic Wikis. It aims to explore and collect the different ideas and motivations that have lead to the recent emergence of so-called "Semantic Wiki" systems. Wikis can be seen as editable information portals. In this workshop, we are mostly interested in the editing/authoring/articulation of information and less about the portal aspect.

Important Dates

 * Paper deadline Paper deadline:=9th July 2006 (can not be extended)
 * Notification Notification:=31th July 2006
 * Camera ready due Camera ready due:=14th August 2006 (can not be extended)
 * Workshop: 23 August 2006

Objectives
The main objective of the workshop is to promote and further develop the idea of employing Wiki design principles and implementations as enabling technology and development paradigm for (formally) creating and structuring knowledge in distributed scenarios. A further aim is to sensitize knowledge engineers in dealing with vague and changing requirements in distributed, Web-based settings. The workshop looks for novel approaches for a seamless integration of Wiki technologies in knowledge engineering practices, for supporting concepts and strategies, as well as for tools and use-cases of their application. Of special interest are ideas and applications using Wikis for creating, managing and using formally represented knowledge in the context of the Semantic Web.

Topics of Interest
include, but are not limited to:
 * Methods employing the Wiki Way in knowledge engineering,
 * Concepts and strategies for integrating domain experts and end users into the knowledge engineering process,
 * Methods for automatic, Wiki-based knowledge elicitation from collaborative environments,
 * Methods for supporting the creation of structured and (partially) formalised personal knowledge bases
 * Policies, authentication and trust within agile collaborative knowledge engineering scenarios,
 * Strategies and methods joining Web 2.0, Wiki and Semantic Web technologies for knowledge management purposes
 * Semantic Wiki tools supporting semantic collaboration
 * Semantic Wiki tools supporting personal knowledge management
 * Wiki-driven applications enabling massively distributed knowledge elicitation,
 * Requirements and use-cases for Web-scaled collaborative knowledge engineering in relation to Wiki technologies
 * Applications of Semantic Wikis, e.g. in Bio-Medicine, Business, Software-Engineering
 * Experience reports, best practices and guidelines in the aforementioned areas

Workshop Format

 * Introduction and overview about current developments with regard the application of Wikis in knowledge engineering and knowledge management tasks
 * Paper presentation
 * Position (5 pages) and full papers (10 pages) will be peer-reviewed by three independent reviewers.
 * Workshop proceedings will appear at CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073
 * Panel discussion

Prospective Audience

 * Researchers and practitioners developing or interested in Wiki-based methods and tools for knowledge engineering,
 * Knowledge engineers, and domain experts interested in the development of collaborative evolving content repositories,
 * Participants from industry interested in employing Wikis for organizational knowledge engineering,
 * Wiki community activists.

Organising Committee

 * Has general chair::Max Völkel, Universität Karlsruhe (TH) / FZI, Germany
 * Has general chair::Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research, Austria
 * Has general chair::Elena Paslaru Bontas, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
 * Has general chair::Sören Auer, Universität Leipzig, Germany