Wikidora

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Wikidora

• A Wiki for Collaboration and Publication
• in Research

Christoph von Hinten, Andreas Hense, Matthias
Razum
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Agenda

• Scenario a Wiki in a Research Project
• Wikidora a Wiki on a DOR
• JSPWiki
• Fedora
• Structure of Wikidora
• Wikidora Demo
• Conclusion

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Scenario Wiki
Wiki
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Scenario Wiki
Wiki
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Problem

• When research projects start, a quick
  collaboration solution is needed.
• LTA in many cases you do not know which content
  that is created now will be valuable in the
  future.

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Solution Wikidora
Internet
Wiki
Digital object repository
Store content
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Solution Wikidora
Internet
Wiki
Digital object repository
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JSPWiki

• JSPWiki is a wiki software using Java, JSP and
  J2EE
• Popular in intranet environments
• Features
• Markup language
• Templates
• Security
• Flexible data storage using providers

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Fedora

• General-purpose, open-source digital object
  repository system.
• Unstructured content, collaboration,
  preservation.
• Architecture, i. e. not for the end-user.

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Structure of the Solution
JSPWiki
Fedora

• Create and edit content
• Rights management
• Versioning

• Long-term archival
• Versioning
• Persistent identifiers
• Metadata

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Fedora Content Model

• Manages all essential data
• DC Dublin Core Metadata
• PDF PDF representation of the wiki page
• EDIT Wiki source code
• WIKI Link to the wiki for editing

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Versioning

• The four datastreams are versioned inFedoras
  digital object.
• Our solution always writes thedatastreams in a
  fixed order.

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Demo

• Wikidora is available with a writable sandbox for
  your experiments
• http//wiki.wikidora.com
• The corresponding Fedora repository is accessible
  in read-only mode
• http//repository.wikidora.com/fedora/search

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Development

• Current version is a proof of concept
• To-Do
• Correct versioning of attachments
• Support for persistent identifiers (Handle
  System)
• Correct versioning of wiki-links
• Sourcecode available under Apache 2.0 license
• http//wikidora.sourceforge.net/

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Related work

• National Science Digital Library Wiki
  functionality in NCore middleware.
• Scholarpedia articles are published in a journal
  after approval.
• eSciDoc advanced infrastructure with publication
  management and scholarly workbench.
• Semantic MediaWiki.
• Media2mult integrates multimedia formats.

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Vision / Discussion

• Extend Wikidora with other Web 2.0 tools to build
  a scholarly groupware.
• Wikidora as a new form of publication
• peer-reviewed wiki-based publication
• boundaries of wiki-based publications
• living publications

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Contact

• Christoph von Hinten
• Rheni GmbH
• cvh_at_rheni.de
• Andreas Hense
• University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
• andreas.hense_at_fh-brs.de
• Matthias Razum
• FIZ Karlsruhe
• matthias.razum_at_fiz-karlsruhe.de

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Backup Slides
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Demo Start page
Log in / Register as new user
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Demo Register as new User
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Demo Logged In
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Demo Fedora Commons
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Demo Object Index
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Demo Generated PDF
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Demo Old versions
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Demo Old versions
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Demo Sandbox