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"Wikis:The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly"

Brand NiemannSenior Enterprise Architect, US EPA

and COIC Semantic Interoperability CoP, Co-ChairPanel at the NIH Wiki Fair

February 28, 2007, Lister Hill Center (Building 38A) on the NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD

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What First Comes to Mind!

• At Wikipedia* no less:– Spaghetti Westerns -

produced by Italian studios.– Italian language, low budgets,

and a recognizable highly fluid, violent, and minimalist cinematography.

– The term was originally used disparagingly, but by the 1980s many of these films came to be held in high regard, particularly because it was hard to ignore the influence they had in redefining the entire idea of a western up to that point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good,_the_Bad_and_the_Ugly

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Applying This To Wikis…

• “For Three Men the Civil War Wasn’t Hell, It was Practice!”– The Ugly (Tuco):

• Non-standardized markup so content is not interoperable from one Wiki to another.

– The Bad (Angel Eyes):• Long pages to scroll through and print (see next

slide).

– The Good (Blondie):• Semantic Wikis deal with the Ugly and the Bad!

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia…

• This article or section contains a plot summary that may be overly long, confusing, or ambiguous.

• Please edit it to both contextualise the fictional nature of the work and focus on discussing the work rather than simply reiterating the plot. You may also discuss changes on the talk page. See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions.

• Please note as well that excessively long plot summaries and synopses may constitute copyright violation.

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CIOC Strategic Plan FY 2007-2009

• Pages 10-11 Re Goal 2: Information securely, rapidly, and reliably delivered to our stakeholders:– Provide updates to the FEA Data Reference Model (DRM) and

establish DRM implementation strategies, best practices, and success stories. The purpose of these activities is to contribute to the usability of the DRM by maintaining an effective process for modifying the DRM and sharing strategies for success.

• SICoP Special Conference 1, February 6, 2007: Building DRM 3.0 and Web 3.0 for Managing Context Across Multiple Documents and Organizations:– http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?

SICoPSpecialConference_2007_02_06• SICoP Special Conference 2, April 25, 2007: Building

Knowledgebases:– http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?

SICoPSpecialConference2_2007_04_25

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SICoP

Source: Pages 21-22, Federal Chief Information Officer Council Strategic Plan:FY 2007-2009, 28 pp. http://www.cio.gov/documents/CIOCouncilStrategicPlan2007-2009.pdf

7Building The DRM 3.0 – and SOAs and the Web 3.0 Too! Can We Start Now?, Lucian Russell, SICoP Special Conference, February 6th, 2007.

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Semantic Wikis: The Role of Techno-Social Collaboration in Building DRM 3.0 and Web 3.0 for Managing Context Across Multiple Documents and Organizations, SICOP Special Conference, February 6, 2007, Mills Davis, Project10X.