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German scientists are working on a project they call Wikinger (German for “Viking”) based on the concept of Wikipedia to provide virtual knowledge networking in addition to the classic exchange of knowledge at Congresses. The goal of the project is to create a domain-neutral platform for scientists to allow them to perform research in knowledge bases regardless of where they are and to generate new knowledge via the Internet in collaboration. The researchers are paying special attention to support for colleagues in networking new contributions with current knowledge.

To this end, techniques from the Semantic Web are being used. Unlike search algorithms that merely look for certain strings but are blind to content, semantic searches also look for synonyms (different strains with the same meaning), for instance, or try to rule out homonyms (words spelled the same but with different meanings, such as “desert”).

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