COLLABORATIVE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

• US 20120239677A1
• Filed: 03/15/2011
• Published: 09/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: MOXY Studios Pty Limited
• Original Assignee: MOXY Studios Pty Limited
• Inventors: Neale, David
• Application Number:
  US13/048,086
• Publication Number:
  US 20120239677A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/759
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/36 Creation of semantic tools, e.g. ontology or thesauri
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for collaborative knowledge management, the method comprises the steps of: (a) providing an interface for users to create or edit pages of a collaborative knowledge base, to add semantic annotations to the pages, and to define dynamic data on the pages; wherein ontological statements are created for the semantic annotations to form part of an ontology; and the dynamic data is defined using a query against the ontology and a mathematical operation on a result of the query; and (h) when a page with dynamic data is accessed, dynamically performing the query and the mathematical operation, and presenting the page with a result of the query or a result of the mathematical operation, or both, in graphical form.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for collaborative knowledge management, the method comprises the steps of:

(a) providing an interface for users to create or edit pages of a collaborative knowledge base, to add semantic annotations to the pages, and to define dynamic data on the pages;

wherein ontological statements are created for the semantic annotations to form part of an ontology; and

the dynamic data is defined using a query against the ontology and a mathematical operation on a result of the query; and

(b) when a page with dynamic data is accessed, dynamically performing the query and the mathematical operation, and presenting the page with a result of the query or a result of the mathematical operation, or both, in graphical form.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein performing the mathematical operation further comprises converting the query, or the result of the query, into a form that can be evaluated by a mathematical engine.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the mathematical engine is implemented using any one of the following programming languages:

R, Matlab, Octave, PHP and Python.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising semantically annotating the page accessed with the result of the mathematical operation.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the ontological statements Resource Data Framework (RDF) statements each comprising a triple of (subject, predicate, object).

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the query is a SPARQL query against the ontology.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein semantic annotations include one or more categories and properties.

9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising providing an interface for the users to select the mathematical operation, and automatically generating a script to perform the selected mathematical operation.

10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising providing an interface for the users to select the graphical form.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the graphical form is a plot generated using the result of the query or the result of the mathematical operation, or both,

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the graphical form is a map indicating the result of the query or the result of the mathematical operation, or both.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein the knowledge base is implemented using Semantic Wiki.

14. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for implementating the method for collaborative knowledge management according to claim 1.

8. The method according to claim 8, further comprising providing an interface for the users to select the one or more categories and properties during semantic annotation.

15. A computer system for collaborative knowledge management, the computer system comprising:

a data store to store a knowledge base comprising pages created and editable by multiple users and an ontology comprising ontological statements; and

a processing unit operable to;

(a) provide an interface for users to create or edit pages of the collaborative knowledge base, to add semantic annotations to the pages, and to define dynamic data on the pages;

wherein ontological statements for the semantic annotations form part of the ontology in the data store; and

the dynamic data is defined using a query against the ontology and a mathematical operation on a result of the query; and

(b) when a page with dynamic data is accessed, dynamically perform the query and the mathematical operation, and present the page with a result of the query or a result of the mathematical operation, or both, in graphical form.