Feb 06 2009
Weekly KiWi Update
As promised, I try to give a regular summary over the activities that have been taking place lately in the project. Please note that I can only report on things that you have told me …
Enabling Technologies (WP2)
Personalisation: Peter and Fred have developed some new ideas on different recommendation widgets which they will integrate into the KiWi system in the next weeks (maybe even before the meeting).
Information Extraction: Pavel and his group started with work on Latent Semantic Analysis and “Explicit Semantic Analysis” employing English Wikipedia.
Core System (WP3)
In the core system, the focus in the last week was on developing the user interaction and user interface of the core system. For this purpose, we had a meeting with Josef from Sun and Werner (who is our own designer) where we developed a storyboard for the most important use cases (Wiki Viewing, Editing, Searching, and Dashboard). Josef and I will summarise the results in a design specification document that we’ll send out in the next two weeks. But I can already promise you: it is a huge step forward and if we manage to realise these concepts, this alone can be a real success for the project. I would like to discuss these ideas with you in the meeting in March, so you will have time to give additional input.
Also in the core system, we have further improved the build and test environment (now using Hudson after suggestions from Werner’s brother and some colleagues from Nuxeo), and there are some new features in the current system that – although with the old UI – already demonstrate some of the new issues we discussed. Most importantly, you will now see a “stream of activities” both, for the overall system and for each individual page. I try to upload a new version of the KiWi system to our showcase server tomorrow so you can try it out.
Use Cases (WP6)
Software Knowledge Management: Josef will present some new ideas for the KiWi system and the use case at the meeting in Salzburg, we will probably have some upcoming interesting changes in the use case. We also had a phone conference between Semantic Web Company and SRFG on the integration of PoolParty and KiWi and the Webservice interface that KiWi will provide. A followup conference will take place next week.
Project Knowledge Management: Wednesday there was a meeting between Logica and AAU on the project knowledge management use case. Development of the (so far separate from KiWi) prototype is progressing.
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