OntoWiki.net - Intuitive Authoring of Semantic Content

OntoWiki is a support tool for agile, distributed knowledge engineering scenarios. This tool facilitates the visual presentation of a knowledge base as an information map, with various views available for the selected data. It enables the user to intuitively author semantic content, and has an editing mode for RDF content that is similar to the What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWIG) of text editors. The site aims to encourage social collaboration over the Internet, so you can track changes, comment anywhere on the knowledge base, or measure the popularity of content. Users can always add value to the application as they use it. According to OntoWiki.net, the goal of the tool is “decreasing the entrance barrier for projects and domain experts to collaborate using semantic technologies.”

"OntoWiki facilitates the visual presentation of a knowledge base as an information map, with different views on instance data. It enables intuitive authoring of semantic content, with an inline editing mode for editing RDF content, similar to WYSIWIG for text documents."

OntoWiki is free and claims to be fairly intuitive once downloaded. Social collaboration over the Internet is a growing trend, so a tool like this that facilitates such collaboration could be a welcome addition.

How does this site plan to make a profit?