The Effect of Using a Semantic Wiki for Metadata Management: A Controlled Experiment
ISSN
1530-1605
ISBN
978-0-7695-3450-3
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2009
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Sprague, Ralph H.
Research Team
IWI2, CDQ
Abstract
A coherent and consistent understanding of corporate data is an important factor for effective management of diversified companies and implies a need for companywide unambiguous data definitions. Inspired by the success of Wikipedia, wiki software has become a broadly discussed alternative for corporate metadata management. However, in contrast to the performance and sustainability of wikis in general, benefits of using semantic wikis have not been investigated sufficiently.The paper at hand presents results of a controlled experiment that investigates effects of using a semantic wiki for metadata management in comparison to a classical wiki. Considering threats to validity, the analysis (i.e. 74 subjects using both a classical and a semantic wiki) shows that the semantic wiki is superior to the classical variant regarding information retrieval tasks. At the same time, the results indicate that more effort is needed to build up the semantically annotated wiki content in the semantic wiki.
Language
English
Keywords
Corporate Data Quality
Corporate Data Dictionary
Data Architecture
Data Quality Management
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
Yes
Book title
Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
Publisher place
Los Alamitos
Start page
1
End page
9
Pages
9
Event Title
42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
Event Location
Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii
Event Date
05.-08.01.2009
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
67809