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wiki pages. Instead we provide an easy way for
structured data entry with a small set of elements,
namely attributes (key-value-pairs) and type tags.
Furthermore, attribute suggestions encourage users
to provide these structuring elements. Suggestions
and auto-completion foster a common vocabulary, so
users immediately benefit from the structure through
better search capabilities. By means of these mecha-
nisms complex structures emerge bottom-up by the
management of particular data sets. To define in-
tegrity constraints we introduced the concepts of val-
idators, attribute definitions and type tag definitions.
They additionally can be used to define advanced
rules and parts of the data model in a top-down man-
ner.
Furthermore, we described the practical expe-
riences made with hybrid wikis in two concrete
projects, one from the industry and one as part of
our research endeavours. For the latter we sketched
the models emerging bottom-up by means of attribute
suggestions as well as the (soft-) constraints addition-
ally defined top-down afterwards.
We see potential to improve and validate our ap-
proach in the following ways:
• Compare hybrid wikis to similar wiki-based ap-
proaches (c.f. Section 5). For instance, we
will analyze the revision history in order to com-
pare the evolution of structure compared to hybrid
wikis.
• Provide more validators (e.g., boolean, date),
which are the basis for advanced controls facili-
tating the input of structured data.
• Support advanced visualizations of structured
data, which also can be used for navigating the
wiki contents.
• Improve the way relationships between pages are
handled (c.f. Section 2.3).
• Provide type (tag) suggestions beside attribute
suggestions.
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