Knowledge Maturing in the Semantic MediaWiki: A Design Study in Career Guidance Nicolas Weber 1,2 , Karin Schoefegger 1 , JennyBimrose 3 , Tobias Ley 2 , Stefanie Lindstaedt 1,2 , Alan Brown 1 , and Sally-Anne Barnes 3 1 Knowledge Management Institute, Graz University of Technology 2 Know-Center 3 Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick nweber@know-center.at, k.schoefegger@tugraz.at, jenny.birmose@warwick.ac.uk, tley@know-center.at, slind@know-center.at, alan.brown@warwick.co.uk, sally-anne.barnes@warwick.ac.uk Abstract. The evolutionary process in which knowledge objects are transformed from informal and highly contextualized artefacts into ex- plicitly linked and formalized learning objects, together with the corre- sponding organisational learning processes, have been termed Knowledge Maturing. Whereas wikis and other tools for collaborative building of knowledge have been suggested as useful tools in this con- text, they lack several features for supporting the knowledge maturing process in organisational settings. To overcome this, we have developed a prototype based on Semantic MediaWiki which enhances the wiki with various maturing functionalities like maturing indicators or mark-up support. Keywords: Knowledge Maturing, Semantic MediaWiki. 1 Introduction Resources in an organizational environment change over the time. Since enter- prises need to become increasingly agile in order to compete successfully, the adaption of the resource to the users needs and the constantly changing re- quirements are a crucial factor. Resources like e-mail, web content, documents facilitate the fulﬁllment of our daily tasks by providing the basis for knowledge intensive work. The improvement and gradual standardization of knowledge ar- tifacts over the time and the accompanying organisational learning processes have been characterized as Knowledge Maturing, see [7]. This paper describes a design study conducted in an ongoing EU funded project called MATURE (http://mature-ip.eu/en/) where the objective is to understand the maturing process and provide maturing support for knowledge workers in a collaborative U. Cress, V. Dimitrova, and M. Specht (Eds.): EC-TEL 2009, LNCS 5794, pp. 700–705, 2009. c  Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009