LexWiki is a collaborative terminology authoring platform based on Semantic MediaWiki and LexGrid technology. It is designed to provide terminology users and subject matter experts the ability to browse and discuss terminology content and structure, and the ability to create machine readable structured proposals. Protégé components are not part of this package but are being considered for future releases.

LexWikiPublisher is a corollary tool used to publish content from a LexEVS server into the LexWiki system. Refer to the LexWiki Publisher page for more information.

System Requirements

• Linux or Windows
• Apache HTTP Server 2.2.3 or above
• MySql 5.0.77 or above
• PHP 5.1.6 or above
• Java 1.5 or above
• Ant 1.6.5 or above

  The Ant installer is not officially supported for the Windows Vista operating system.

Installation requirements

• The user should understand how to work with a web server.
• The user must have appropriate privileges (read, write, and execute - rwx) to the location on the file system that will be served by the web server.
• For Linux users, the installer requires that the user has one of the following system privileges:
  • Root / superuser account
• Apache account (or the user account on which the web server is running)
  • A user account which belongs to the same group as the Apache account.
• The user has the SELECT privilege on mysql.func table in the MySQL database.
• The web server is started and running.