Feb 19 2009
KiWi Update: Showcase and Upcoming Open Source Release
Open Source (Pre-)Release. This week has again been a busy week, as we are proceeding towards the first Open Source pre-release of the KiWi system, which we plan to upload next week or in the first week of March. Most of what we have been doing has been related to fixing bugs and improving the overall system stability. There are still some issues left, but I am confident that we can resolve them until end of next week. The KiWi distribution will be packaged both, as source and as a binary bundle that is “ready-to-start”, including JBoss Server and the H2 database, and we will host the packages either at Sourceforge, or at the new Kenai platform provided by our partner Sun Microsystems. The Open Source release is at the same time milestone 2 of the KiWi project (first prototype release), scheduled for month 12.
KiWi Showcase. Today, we have also updated the KiWi Showcase Server at http://showcase.kiwi-project.eu/KiWi, where you can try out the live KiWi system with the latest layout changes and other improvements. Currently functional are only the Wiki, the TagIT application and the Inspector. The Admin currently only allows uploading ontologies, and the Logica application is non-functional (and will not be included in the Open Source release). Please let us know your impressions, either by adding comments to this post or by submitting bug reports to the Jira Issue Tracking.
Reasoning and Querying. The Munich group works on the usage model, focuses on structured tagging, negative tagging, links, relation of content items and fragments, … and summarizes its ideas as a position paper for the ESWC wiki workshop. Meanwhile further develops ideas about reasoning and querying for which the usage model serves as a common ground.
SemWiki2009 Preparations. Next week is also the deadline for the submission of papers to the SemWiki 2009 workshop. We expect to submit several KiWi articles on the topics of structured tagging (see above), transactions and synchronisation, and content versatility. I’d like to use the opportunity to invite you again to submit your paper as well! The workshop was a huge success in the last years, and we expect this to be the same this year.
KiWi Programming Camps. As the KiWi core system is stabilizing more and more, we begin thinking about organising the first (internal) “programming camps”. The idea behind the programming camps is that the KiWi development team meets for one week of “extreme programming”, where we learn from each other and try to accomplish some of the open tasks. The first programming camp is scheduled now for the 3rd week of March in Salzburg. The topics we are going to address are still under discussion, but roughly we’ll see improvements of the editor, first versions of the recommendation system, beginnings of the rule-based reasoner, an improved search functionality using label-keyword searches, some integration of the use cases, and probably more.
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