Towards a Wiki Interchange Format ( WIF ) Opening Semantic Wiki Content and Metadata

Wikis tend to be used more and more in world-wide, intranet and increasingly even in personal settings. Current wiki content is a data island. People can read and edit it, but machines can only send around text strings without structure. Migration, publishing from one wiki to another one and choice of syntax are holding back broader wiki usage. In this paper we define a wiki interchange format (WIF) that allows data exchange between wikis and related tools. Different from other approaches, we also tackle the problem of page content and annotations. The linking from formal annotations to parts of a structured text is analysed and described.