Tool overview

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.

Features of LexWiki

Browsing support
- Hierarchy view with Category Tree extension
- Concept-oriented view with Header tabs extension
- Proposal browsing - all proposals by curation status and by categories with ontology browser
- My Proposal browsing with MyWorkflow extension
Authoring support
- LexWiki Editor - Semantic Forms/Header Tabs: may propose structured changes and unstructured changes
- Change tracking and view changes
- Proposal Commenting
- Proposal Voting
- Evidence attachment with citation and file upload

LexWiki is currently not a grid enabled technology

What's New

:LexWiki Tool Development

At-a-glance specifications

The LexWiki Installation Guide is intended for system administrators. This guide will give you an overview of how to install and configure a LexWiki system. If you are not an administrator, we recommend that you work with the system administrator of your organization to install and configure LexWiki.

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
*Note: The Ant installer is not officially supported for Vista.
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.

LexWiki Publisher

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