Towards Effective Management of Software Knowledge Exploiting the Semantic Wiki Paradigm

Abstract

The increasing number of distributed software projects together with the success of agile development methodologies raise new challenges for collaboration and knowledge sharing. While traditional centralized knowledge management solutions fail to address these challenges, Semantic Wikis bring new potentials, pro- viding lightweight, incremental and machine-readable knowledge articulation and sharing facilities. In this paper we survey the state-of-the-art of Semantic Wikis. We then discuss how they can cope with difficulties of conventional Wikis to efficiently manage knowledge created in software engineering projects.