WontoMedia

From Wontology

WontoMedia is a web application package for hosting a Wontology (a Wiki-Ontology): a classification scheme created and maintained by a community. The types of information WontoMedia is designed to work with ranges from simple single lists, like categories in a bug-tracker, to simple hierarchies, like RubyForge's software package categorization scheme, to a document repository's controlled vocabulary, a species taxonomy, or thesaurus. ("wontology" comes from wiki plus ontology. "WontoMedia" is a wontology web app in the same way that MediaWiki is a wiki web app.)

Development of WontoMedia is hosted on RubyForge, including the package's main web site, although not this wiki.

WontoMedia is a free/libre/open-source (FLOSS) Ruby-on-Rails web application, written in the language Ruby. It is being developed using FLOSS tools for TDD (Test-Driven Development) and ATDD (Acceptance-Test Driven Development), and supporting distribution/installation via Git, rubygems, and tar/setup.rb. It is intended for websites that are, or that use, wontologies. That is, websites which are (in whole or in part) community-produced ontologies, or simpler structures like lists, hierarchies, taxonomies, thesauri, controlled vocabularies, etc. This is analogous to how a wiki is used for community production of prose or to how freebase.com is a "community database" site.