= About Skipforward =
Skipforward is a distributed recommendation system using a lightweight ontology approach for formalizing opinions about item features.
Items can be things such as songs or board games; example item features are the genre of a song or the degree of chance in a board game.
Every user of the system is free to add new items and statements about existing items to the system.
Naturally, opinions may differ between users---the system even encourages people to express dissent by supporting negation for item features.
Skipforward allows discussions for any item feature as well as displaying these discussions in a way similar to web forums.

Skipforward uses the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html GNU Affero General Public License] version 3.

= Starting Points =
 * [https://skipforward.opendfki.de/repos/trunk/web/video/index.html SystemWalkthrough] - a screencast showing some of the major points of Skipforward, based on revision 224.
 * DemoInstallation - log in using a demo account. This is read-only.
 * GettingStarted - how to log in and set up the system using an own XMPP account.

= Development =
 * [source:trunk/skipforward Browse source]
 * SVN repository is available at https://skipforward.opendfki.de/repos/trunk/
 * [wiki:Ideas Ideas] collection

= Contact =
 * [http://www.dfki.de/~kiesel/ Malte Kiesel]

= Publications =
 * Malte Kiesel, Sven Schwarz. ''Skipforward---a lightweight ontology-based peer-to-peer recommendation system''. [http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/ ISWC 2008] Demonstration. [http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-401 CEUR-WS Volume 401]. [http://www.dfki.de/~kiesel/paper/2008_Skipforward_ISWC_Poster.pdf Poster].