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Last edited Apr 30, 2011

Hybrid Wiki Collaboration

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  • Based on ten years of project and product experience and in close cooperation with research infoAsset has developed so-called hybrid wikis.
  • Hybrid wikis flexibly adapt to the emergent information structures, information management processes and organization structures of an enterprise.
  •  Hybrid wikis dramatically reduce the customization time, effort and cost required for each individual customer.

Hybrid wikis also provide standard and enterprise wiki functionality.

Standard wiki functionality

  • Edit any page in a wiki
  • Edit the wiki page text with a powerful WYSIWYG hypertext editor
  • Highlight all broken links on a page
  • Create stable and readable permalinks (URLs) for wiki pages
  • Accept and publish comments on wiki pages (can be disabled)
  • Attach tags to wiki pages to classify wiki pages by topic, time, location, ...
  • Find pages by title, fulltext, wiki space and modificaiton date
  • View all pages, blog entries, forum entries, ... that link to a wiki page.
  • View recently changed pages
  • Keep a full history of page versions
  • Compare page versions side-by-side
  • Restore to any previous page version
  • Recover deleted pages

Enterprise wiki functionality

  • Create multiple wikis (spaces) for different communities
  • Define editors who by default can edit all wiki pages in a space
  • Define contributors who can add wiki pages to a wiki space.
  • Define readers who can view and find pages in a wiki space
  • Override the readers  of a page to make them available to a wider audience or to restrict access to a limited set of editors
  • Add additional writers to a page to make them available to a wider audience
  • Define a home page for a wiki  which can be referenced directly by the name of the wiki a
  • Define a hierarchical organization and a start page for a wiki to support easy navigation and orientation (menu tree, breadcrumb navigation).
  • Choose between multiple wiki themes matching user's naviational needs (hierarchical menus, tag clouds, book style documents) or create a new wiki theme.

Hybrid wiki functionality to support emergent information structures

  • Incrementally addd structured attributes to wiki pages. Each attribute consists a name and  a lists of values or links to other content items
  • Add type tags to wiki pages to identify wiki pages that should have similar structure and similar consistency rules
  • Incrementally add and refine consistency rules (formats, types, cardinalities, rules, ...) for type type tags and attributes of wiki pages
  • Combine  full-text searches with multi-dimensional attribute searches (faceted search) for structured information access
  • Define lists, tables and diagrams based on stored queries to provide stakeholder-specific information views

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