ABSTRACT
The HSCB modeling community faces broad challenges in the area of knowledge integration including data and meta-data management and representing knowledge of socio-cultural factors. Current solutions revolve around documentcentric repositories, which make it difficult to find an answer to a specific question because the information is stored at the document level and not the fact level. A lack of annotation about the content increases the cognitive load on the user, and not being able to capture and share annotations makes sense making and reach-back more challenging. These issues are cast into sharp relief within the realm of Civilian Affairs, in which efforts to engage the local population are often inadvertently duplicated due to the inexistence of records for past operations, and can be rendered ineffective due to a lack of sociocultural information about the area. In response to these challenges we developed the Marine Corps Civil Information Management (MarCIM) Semantic Wiki, a knowledge portal for Civil Information Management (CIM) that enables users to collect, organize, tag, search, browse, visualize, and share knowledge. Users can automatically document field collected information and datasets in a structured format, while leveraging a rich repository of social-cultural information in context. The MarCIM Semantic Wiki provides intelligent and automated semantic tagging of field collected data imported to the knowledge portal generating new relationships within the data and making information more discoverable. Harnessing semantically annotated knowledge is essential for assessing the needs of the civilian population and utilizing socio-cultural data for mission support.
