A contribution-based framework for the creation of semantically-enabled web applications

This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Information Sciences. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Information Sciences 180.10 (2010)10.1016/j.ins.2009.07.004We present Fortunata, a wiki-based framework designed to simplify the creation of semantically- enabled web applications. This framework facilitates the management and publication of semantic data in web-based applications, to the extent that application developers do not need to be skilled in client-side technologies, and promotes application reuse by fostering collaboration among developers by means of wiki plugins. We ¡Ilústrate the use of this framework with two Fortunata-based applications named OMEMO and VPOET, and we evalúate it with two experiments performed with usability evaluators and application developers respectively. These experiments show a good balance between the usability of the applications created with this framework and the effort and skills required by developers