Active Wiki Knowledge Repository
Abstract
An Active-Wiki concept was designed and a prototype built to evaluate a dynamic customized knowledge repository. By its nature, a wiki framework enables distributed sharing of information. The capability was designed to enable users to build and share custom views of information. The wiki was termed "active" because it automatically monitors information sources, updates existing pages with content or hyperlinks and, when needed, builds new pages. The Active Wiki (AW) maintains page relationships based on a user's knowledge-domain ontology. The prototype facilitates knowledge formation by providing users tools to analyze and visualize content. The novice user can use existing pages and/or tailor pages through menu selections. The advanced user can customize content and tailor views by writing Ruby scripts. A powerful aspect of the Active Wiki is that visualizations of information are not end points but rather process outputs that can be manipulated and used as input to other processes. To handle big data efficiently, the design concept uses metadata geo-hashing methods for data referencing and searching files. Open layers are used for overlaying content for virtual data fusion. The prototype uses modular software development to lower costs and open standards for construction pages to improve interoperability. The AW has been demonstrated and tested in a number of exercises.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Accession Number
- ADA584803
Entities
People
- Eric L. Dorman
- Ronald J. Wroblewski
- Scott C. Mcgirr
Organizations
- Naval Information Warfare Systems Command