Bringing together knowledge bearers is a crucial factor for innovation in highperformance sports. Since the capabilities of a growing amount of nations are converging, every detail counts to win a competition. To harness the competence, experience and knowledge of various stakeholders, the Innovation Network Alpine Skiing has developed a custom-designed knowledge and idea management system. Having adapted Web 2.0 technologies to the requirements of innovation in the special environment of high-performance sports, the knowledge workers are enabled to easily contribute to the innovation process. The Wiki-based solution called “SkiBaserl”1 is successfully used in several development projects within the German Skiing Association. This article delivers an outline of the development process, the implementation and an evaluation of the tool.

Authors: Klaus Bredl

Abstract: The need for Knowledge Management (KM) in Human Services is growing. New
“Social Software”-solutions which came along with the so-called “Web 2.0” enable advanced
possibilities of implementing KM-strategies in smaller agencies in the domain of Social Work.
In the field of of human service-oriented knowledge sharing one case out of three projects
showing the use of a wiki will be presented. The project deal with the introduction of a wiki in
the area of Case Management in a job center.

Keywords: Social Software, Wiki, Web 2.0, Human Services, Knowledge Management, Open
Source

Categories: H.1.1, M.5, M.6, L.1.0

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Authors: Ralf Klamma and  Christian Haasler

Abstract: Wikis have their seeds in the easy collaborative editing and maintenance
of web pages. This was picked up by tremendously successful public projects such as
the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Creating, modifying and maintaining of wiki articles
implies social structures and dependencies between wiki authors and wiki articles themselves.
The general challenge of this work is to consider these structures as dynamic
evolving networks and to point out prominent behaviors in large wiki-based networks.
We present an environment capable of handling data management, measurement and
visualization issues for the dynamic network analysis of publicly available wiki data.

Key Words: Dynamic network analysis, wiki, Wikipedia, social networks, visualization,
measurement, data management

Category: E.1, G.2.2, H.3.1, H.3.3, H.3.7, H.4

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Authors: Valentina Milicevic and Milorad Tosic

Abstract: Wikis as well as collaborative tagging have been subject of very intense
research last years and active discussion topics in the so-called blogsphere as well. In
this paper, we propose collaborative Wiki tagging based on the idea to exploit
inherent semantics of the concept of link in Wiki. The low-level integration of Wiki
and collaborative tagging of web resources is expected to be effective in enterprise
particularly in the personal and group knowledge management application area. We
first introduce conceptualisation of collaborative Wiki tagging. Then, we propose a
simple scheme for using one of the existing native Wiki syntax to represent tagging
data. Collaborative Wiki Tagging Portal Prototype, developed as a proof of concept,
is used to give illustrative practical examples of the proposed approach and
illustration of the user interface.

Keywords: Knowledge Management, Wiki, Collaborative Tagging

Categories: H.3.3, H.3.5, H.5.3, H.5.4

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Authors: Steffen Lohmann, Philipp Heim, Soeren Auer, Sebastian Dietzold, Thomas Riechert

Abstract: This paper presents an integrated approach of basing requirements engineering on
semantic technologies. First, the general approach of semantifying requirements and the
underlying ontology are introduced. Second, tools that support requirements elicitation,
development, analysis, and exchange on the basis of the semantic foundation are described.

Keywords: Semantic Web, Requirements Engineering, Distributed Software Development,
Ontology-Driven, User-Oriented, Wiki, Semantic Interoperability, Linked Data

Categories: D.2.1, D.2.12, H.3.2, I.2.4

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Authors: Simone Braun and Andreas Schmidt

Abstract: The knowledge maturing theory opens an important macro perspective within the
new paradigm of work-integrated learning. Especially wikis are interesting socio-technical
systems to foster maturing activities by overcoming typical barriers. But so far, the theory has
been mainly based on anecdotal evidence collected from various projects and observations. In
this paper, we want to present the results of a qualitative and quantitative study of Wikipedia
with respect to maturing phenomena, identifying instruments and measures indicating maturity.
The findings, generalized to enterprise wikis, open the perspective on what promotes maturing
on a method level and what can be used to spot maturing processes on a technology level.

Keywords: wiki, knowledge maturing, work-integrated learning

Categories: H.3.5, H.3.7, H.4.0, J.4

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