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 ​GNU Affero General Public License version 3.

Starting Points

• ​SystemWalkthrough - a screencast showing some of the major points of Skipforward, based on revision 224 (2008-10-26).
  • Recent features not included in the screencast: Trust network and opinion/user similarity metrics, alternative user interface, RSS feeds.
• 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

• Browse source
• SVN repository is available at ​https://skipforward.opendfki.de/repos/trunk/
• Ideas collection

Contact

• ​Malte Kiesel

Publications

• Malte Kiesel, Sven Schwarz. Skipforward---a lightweight ontology-based peer-to-peer recommendation system. ​ISWC 2008 Demonstration. ​CEUR-WS Volume 401. ​Poster.