%0 Conference Paper %1 Haller:2006:iMappingWikis %A Haller, Heiko %A Kugel, Felix %A Völkel, Max %B Proceedings of the First Workshop on Semantic Wikis -- From Wiki %D 2006 %E Völkel, Max %E Schaffert, Sebastian %I ESWC2006 %K Semantic_Web semanticwiki web2.0 wiki %T iMapping Wikis -- Towards a Graphical Environment for Semantic Knowledge Management %U http://semwiki.org/semwiki2006 %X iMapping is a visual technique for structuring information objects. It is based on research in the fields of visual mapping techniques, Information Visualisation and cognitive psychology. iMapping uses a Zooming User Interface to facilitate navigation and to help users maintain an overview in the knowledge space. An iMap is comparable to a large whiteboard where wiki-pages can be positioned like post-its but also nested into each other. Augmenting Wikis by providing spatial browsing and zooming facilities makes it easier to structure content in an intuitive way. Especially semantic wikis, which typically contain more fine-grained content, and stress the structure between information items, can benefit from a graphical approach like iMapping, that allows to display multiple such items and multiple wiki-pages in one view. This paper describes the iMapping approach in general, and briefly how it will be applied as a rich client front-end to the SemWiki engine.

@inproceedings{Haller:2006:iMappingWikis, abstract = {iMapping is a visual technique for structuring information objects. It is based on research in the fields of visual mapping techniques, Information Visualisation and cognitive psychology. iMapping uses a Zooming User Interface to facilitate navigation and to help users maintain an overview in the knowledge space. An iMap is comparable to a large whiteboard where wiki-pages can be positioned like post-its but also nested into each other. Augmenting Wikis by providing spatial browsing and zooming facilities makes it easier to structure content in an intuitive way. Especially semantic wikis, which typically contain more fine-grained content, and stress the structure between information items, can benefit from a graphical approach like iMapping, that allows to display multiple such items and multiple wiki-pages in one view. This paper describes the iMapping approach in general, and briefly how it will be applied as a rich client front-end to the SemWiki engine.}, added-at = {2007-07-23T14:11:21.000+0200}, author = {Haller, Heiko and Kugel, Felix and V\"{o}lkel, Max}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2b5d6b22f26ec9fd170dfac52ee989b49/lysander07}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the First Workshop on Semantic Wikis -- From Wiki}, crossref = {SemWiki2006-proceedings}, editor = {V\"{o}lkel, Max and Schaffert, Sebastian}, interhash = {1cb2e76f66807d8c46dedbe748519ae4}, intrahash = {b5d6b22f26ec9fd170dfac52ee989b49}, keywords = {Semantic_Web semanticwiki web2.0 wiki}, month = {June}, owner = {voelkel}, publisher = {ESWC2006}, series = {Workshop on Semantic Wikis}, timestamp = {2009-06-02T11:03:15.000+0200}, title = {iMapping Wikis -- Towards a Graphical Environment for Semantic Knowledge Management}, url = {http://semwiki.org/semwiki2006}, year = 2006 }