Claudia Müller-Birn, 12/10/2016 21:11: http://www.eagle-network.eu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page , as documented on http://wikiba.se/projects/ . You can ask on this list if you have questions. Nemo

SMW has been used successfully in the past for such projects, indeed has been developed with that in mind. A few papers here: http://www.semantic-cora.org/index.php/Publications_and_Talks http://www.aifb.kit.edu/web/Frank_Dengler/Publikationen/en https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&us… https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&us… https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&us… https://km.aifb.kit.edu/ws/ckc2007/accepted.htm#papers But these are just a few pointers, and I am sure it is quite out of that by now. On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 12:54 PM Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:

No, wouldn't know of any. Wikibase is still rather new in this field, and to the best of my knowledge there has been no evaluation of the two for the task of collaborative vocabulary management. On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 1:20 PM Claudia Müller-Birn <clmb(a)inf.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

I don't know if Jakob Voss is on this list, but he had a recent paper on using Wikidata (not Wikibase) for NKOS terminology. On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 1:32 PM Gregor Hagedorn < gregor.hagedorn(a)mfn-berlin.de&gt; wrote:

Thanks Gregor. I will add this to my list. Btw, I will distill all information and will share in a separate email. So far, I am overwhelmed by all responses - great. Claudia

Hi Claudia , you wrote: I recently collected a list of Open Source web applications to create Knowledge Organization Systems - including SMW and Wikibase: http://coli-conc.gbv.de/publications/tr7.html (=http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.61262) The list lacks https://pypi.python.org/pypi/atramhasis and I omitted applications with major focus on terminology management for translation (aka termbases). Both SWM and Wikibase support creation of knowledge bases without strict schemata. The downside of their flexibility is a lack of constraints and workflows that must be build on to of them with additional tools. Choice of the right software for creating structured vocabularies very much depends on the types and requirements of your vocabularies. If you want some control, e.g. suggested and approved changes, hierachies, controll of synonyms and homonyms and your vocabulary is a "classical" knowledge organization system such as a authority files, thesaurus or classifications, you may better try a dedicated software such as the editors I found. I have not evaluated these applications so I'am also curious about experiences with iQvoc, TemaTres, VocBench, Ginco, and atramhasis. If your vocabulary is more going to be an ontology then Semantic MediaWiki or Wikibase (possibly also Web Protégé or VoCol) may be required with additional customization. I'd first ask what you actually mean by "ontology" - many so called ontologies are actually simply extended thesauri, classifications or even dump term list that could also be managed in a shared Google Spreadsheet. My own experience in collaborative creating structured vocabularies mainly focus small controlled list (=no need for dedicated software) and on Wikidata (see http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1676/paper2.pdf). The latter is a special case because you must involve in the existing Wikimedia communities with all of its benefits (motivated collaborators, real-world entities connected to other vocabularies, fame and glory...) and downsides (less control, possibly tiresome discussions...). I prefer this approach of harvesting and extending vocabularies from Wikidata because the vocabularies are (or at least expected to be) founded in actual use of terms by their connection to Wikidata articles instead building yet another ivory tower ontology. That's all for now, looking forward for more uses cases and experiences, Jakob Voß