CoolWikNews: More than Meets the Eye in the 21st Century Journalism

Abstract

This chapter deals with a semantic wiki application devoted to news publishing, Cool- WikNews. This semantic application offers the functionalities of a traditional wiki, but enhanced with semantic data. It focuses on the simplicity of both use and browsing, the accurate retrieval of information, and its flexibility to be applied in any domain apart from news publishing. In this chapter, definitions related with this topic will be explained, apart from describing the steps taken so far and the problems still to overcome. Inwards and advantages of CoolWikNews will be presented, paying more attention in how this application overcomes the problems arisen. The chapter concludes with future work and several remarks.