Socio semantic Web : towards socially constructed "Topic Maps" by communities
Abstract
We present, in this article, a “topic map” system applied to the Open Source Software (OSS) community. Our approach is deliberately open and based on the HyperTopic model created by TechCICO lab. Our collective experimentation aims at the construction of a shared information platform that would be visible and useable for the OSS community. Thanks to this platform, OSS community members can describe and find software applications, by browsing multi-point of view “topic maps”. Everyone may declare the characteristics of a software project following an index structure made of several tree diagrams. Thus, the community will build, in an ideal case, collective semantics “in progress”.