Jump-starting a Body-of-Knowledge with a Semantic Wiki on a Discipline Ontology V´ ıctor Codocedo, Claudia L´ opez, and Hern´ an Astudillo Universidad T´ ecnica Federico Santa Mar´ ıa, Avenida Espa˜ na 1680, Valpara´ ıso. Chile {vcodocedo,clopez,hernan}@inf.utfsm.cl http://www.usm.cl/ Abstract. Several communities have engaged recently in assembling a Body of Knowledge (BOK) to organize the discipline knowledge for learn- ing and sharing. BOK ideally represents the domain, contextualizes as- sets (e.g. literature), and exploits the Social Web potential to maintain and improve it. Semantic wikis are excellent tools to handle domain (on- tological) representations, to relate items, and to enable collaboration. Unfortunately, creating a whole BOK (structure, content and relations) from scratch may fall prey to the “white page syndrome” 1 , given the size and complexity of the domain information. This article presents an approach to jump-start a BOK, by implementing it as a semantic wiki or- ganized around a domain ontology. Domain representation (structure and content) are initialized by automatically creating wiki pages for each on- tology concept and digital asset; the ontology itself is semi-automatically built using natural language processing (NLP) techniques. Contextual- ization is initialized by automatically linking concept- and asset-pages. The proposal’s feasibility is shown with a prototype for a Software Archi- tecture BOK, built from 1,000 articles indexed by a well-known scientific digital library and completed by volunteers. The proposed approach sep- arates the issues of domain representation, resources contextualization, and social elaboration, allowing communities to try on alternate solutions for each issue. Key words: semantic wiki, body of knowledge, automated domain ontology, digital assets contextualization 1 Introduction In recent years, several professional and academic communities have undertaken to organize and systematize their knowledge with a “Body Of Knowledge” (BOK for short). BOK’s have been created most famously for project management 1 Colloquial name for writers’ mental block when starting a new piece from scratch