Rhizomer is a framework that aims to improve human interaction with the semantic web by separating HTML content and semantic metadata in a wiki system. It uses a simple wiki engine to manage HTML documents and a semantic metadata engine called Rhizomer to manage metadata about the wiki documents or other resources. Rhizomer provides a guided tour interface and forms to enable non-experts to easily view, query and edit semantic metadata using only a web browser. Future work will focus on improving interaction through AJAX and assisted metadata creation and specialised visualisation services.