The current big ideas behind TWiki

An enterprise collaboration platform

• a project development space
• a document management system
• a knowledge base

A structured Wiki

Combines the benefits of a Wiki and a database application

• Benefits of a Wiki
  • Open content
  • A dynamic set of pages, easily linked without knowledge of HTML
  • Collaborative authoring
  • Web-based authoring

• Benefits of a database application
  • Highly structured data
  • Easy reporting
  • Workflow
  • Access control

• Benefits of a structured wiki
  • Flexibility to add free form content to structured content (and vice versa)
  • Lends itelf to build applications more than typicals wikis

A consumer, producer and diplayer of Epidata

Application-related data that is displayed in the body of a wiki topic. (Concept courtesy of TWiki:LynnwoodBrown)

• Links, both internal and external
• People
• Tasks
• Events
• Annotations
• Data retrieved from external sources

-- MeredithLesly - 26 Feb 2006

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This is my distillation of what I see as the current big ideas behind TWiki. Thoughts, additions, whatevers?

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