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As a result of the SoftWiki project the SoftWiki competence network was founded on the 8th of September 2009.

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SoftWiki – Distributed, End-user Centered Requirements Engineering for Evolutionary Software Development

The aim of the cooperative research project SoftWiki is to support the collaboration of all stakeholders in software development processes in particular with respect to software requirements. Potentially very large and spatially distributed user groups shall be enabled to collect, semantically enrich, classify and aggregate software requirements. The solution will be founded on the Semantic Web standards for terminological knowledge representation. The implementation will base on generic means of semantic collaboration using next generation Web user interfaces (in the spirit of Social Software and the Web 2.0) thus fostering completely new means of Requirements Engineering with very large user groups.

National research project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, part of the research initiative “Software Engineering 2006”


News

LOD2 Webinar Series: LIMES – Discovery of Links across Knowledge Bases
The 1st version of the LOD2 Stack has been published in September 2011 in the form of an LOD2 Stack demo and the downloadable LOD2 Stack virtual machine image – additional details and the instructions on installing the LOD2 Stack from scratch are available in the How-To-Start document. Born from the wish to make linking [...]

LOD2 Plenary Meeting: WebID and Authorization SIG
Today morning, we started the main LOD2 plenary meeting in Vienna. The first half day session the WebID special interest group discussed about WebID based single sign for the LDO2 stack and authorization. The challenge here is to provide a interoperable authorization layer which describe user, groups / roles and access to different parts of the stack as well as the managed knowledge bases. We agreed on the following short and long-time goals and activities: WebID registration service and stack internal authorization policy.

I-Semantics deadlines approaching (research/application papers and Linked Data Cup)
Several deadlines regarding the I-Semantics 2012 are approaching and we would like to give a gentle reminder to all who are thinking about a submission that now would be a good time to start writing The deadline for research and application papers (8 pages for full papers) is April 13th, 2012. Note that the abstract [...]