Collaborative modeling with semantic MediaWiki

  • Authors:
  • Frank Dengler;Hans-Jörg Happel

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany;FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Modeling is an important aspect of information system development, allowing for abstract descriptions of systems and processes. Therefore, models are often characterized as communication artifacts between different stakeholders in a development process. However, modeling as such has turned out to be a specialist activity, requiring skills in arcane modeling languages and complex tools. In this paper, we suggest and present an approach for collaborative, Wiki-based modeling of process models and UML (class-)diagrams. While other web-based "lightweight" modeling tools are available, our approach consequently follows the Wiki-paradigm and allows us to semantically process the modeled information building upon Semantic MediaWiki.