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The Ken Orr Institute Web 2.0 Wiki Pilot: Tutorial

Brand Niemann

July 12, 2008

http://kenorrinstitute.wik.is/

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Introduction• Background: Brand Niemann attended Ken Orr's Data Architecture

for Business Architects at the Brainstorm DC, June 26, 2008, and suggested using Web 2.0 Wikis and Ken asked for a demonstration of how they could be used and this is the initial result. Brand is a senior Enterprise Architect in the Office of Environmental Information and the Chief Information Officer at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and did this work on his own time to honor Ken and the 20th anniversary of The Ken Orr Institute.

• Purpose: Bring together the following: Traditional data modeling (David Hay); Ontologies (John Sowa and Arun Majumdar); and Semantic Web (Jim Hendler and Dean Allemang) using Web 2.0/3.0 Wikis for bookkeeping and collaboration on all of this that would have the added advantage of attracting younger people to this area.

• Deki Wiki Technology: This is really a web-services platform with a Wiki interface (see slides 3-4).

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MindTouch Deki Wiki Features

• Content Creation:– An editing experience similar to what you would expect from

modern word processor applications. • Content Management:

– Hierarchical page organization: Organize content in an intuitive hierarchical manner

• Search:– Advanced search: User can view all results or only specific

subsets of the result set• Attachments:

– Users can attach any file or image to any page.• Versioning and Reversion:

– Page versioning: Every page retains a complete history of changes.

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MindTouch Deki Wiki Features

• Access Control:– Restrict page editing, Restrict page viewing, Restrict

hierarchies

• Alerts and Notifications:– Watch list Feeds: Every user can create a list of

pages to watch.

• Application Administration:– Site administration: Quickly and easily manage

multiple users and users' status

• Miscellaneous:– Adherence to standards: All content is stored in XML.

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Tutorial Overview• 1: Decide on Name• 2: Register Name• 3: Login• 4: Set Preferences• 5: Control Panel• 6: Design Home Page• 7: Create Subtopics• 8: Repurpose Web Content Into Wiki• 9: Attach Files• 10: Insert Images and Links• 11: Create Web Log (Blog)• 12: Set Security• 13: Monitor Users• 14: Revise/Reorganize

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1: Decide on Name

http://wik.is/

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2: Register Name

http://wik.is/register/?sitename=kenorrinstitute&x=47&y=11

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3: Login

http://wik.is/success/?sitename=kenorrinstitute

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4: Set Preferences

http://kenorrinstitute.wik.is/Welcome

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4: Set Preferences

Private Email

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4: Set Preferences

http://kenorrinstitute.wik.is/Special:Preferences

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5: Control Panel

http://kenorrinstitute.wik.is/Admin:

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5: Control Panel

http://kenorrinstitute.wik.is/Admin:Settings

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5: Control Panel

http://kenorrinstitute.wik.is/Admin:Styles

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6: Design Home Page

http://kenorrinstitute.wik.is/

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7: Create Subtopics

http://kenorrinstitute.wik.is/About_Ken_Orr

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8: Repurpose Web Content Into Wiki

http://kenorrinstitute.wik.is/Publications/Putting_Data_into_SOA

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9: Attach Files

http://kenorrinstitute.wik.is/Wikilog

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9: Attach Files

http://kenorrinstitute.wik.is/Wikilog

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10: Insert Images and Links

http://kenorrinstitute.wik.is/Publications/Putting_Data_into_SOA

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10: Insert Images and Links

http://kenorrinstitute.wik.is/

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11: Create Wikilog

http://kenorrinstitute.wik.is/Wikilog

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12: Set Security

http://kenorrinstitute.wik.is/

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12: Set Security

• Public: everybody can view and edit.• Semi-Public: everybody can view, but only

selected users can edit.• Private: only selected users can view and edit

this page.• Note: Deki Wiki has one of the most advanced

permission systems available. Deki Wiki administrators can make wikis public or private, anonymous or not. There is user groups support. Users can permission entire hierarchies to create private or non-editable workspaces or permission single pages.

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13: Monitor Users

http://kenorrinstitute.wik.is/Special:Recentchanges

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14: Revise/Reorganize

• To soon for this new Wiki, but for another Web 2.0 Wiki Project I did the following quickly:– Moved content from Wiki to another Wiki.– Implemented a set of topics and subtopics.– Created a new user interface.– Updated the Tutorial slides and uploaded them.

Note: This shows how agile and flexible the Web 2.0 Wiki environment is to respond to requests that would be more difficult (or impossible) and time consuming with Web 1.0 collaboration technology.