Category:Planetary

Planetary was to be a new  which was in development. It was started August by members of the Jacobs University in , and the Knowledge Media Institute (KMI) at The Open University (OU) in , United Kingdom. It was hosted by .

The Planetary System is a  information portal, which is specifically -enabled, and combines the social, user generated Web (Web 2.0) with features. Its ethos is that it can be instantiated by a user community to individual 'planets' that combine material on a specific topic of joint interest. The fundament difference between sites which use Planetary, and Web 2.0 portals like Wikipedia, is that the 'planets' concentrate on semantic interactions and topics (where semantic annotations of complex objects is worthwhile).

Its wiki syntax is as yet unknown, although it states it is a re-write of the  software. The software does not appear to be available for download yet, although a PlanetMath AlphaRelease was available. It was intended to be released as (FOSS), and indications appear to state it was to be released under the  (GPL).

It sometime April 2016.