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The paper presents an enhanced version of an existing wiki platform (XWiki), in order to integrate knowledge, based on various Semantic Web technologies. In particular, we describe how metadata, microformats, ontologies are meaningfully used in this context, and we show the utility of our approach via two use cases.

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Dumitriu, S., Gîrdea, M., Buraga, S.C. (2007). From Information Wiki to Knowledge Wiki via Semantic Web technologies. In: Sobh, T. (eds) Innovations and Advanced Techniques in Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6268-1_79

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