Knowledge Sharing on the Semantic Web

A paper written by Nicholas John Kings, John Davies and Caroline Gale. It was presented at the ESWC2007. It is about Tagging, Knowledge Sharing, Semantic Web, Social Software and Communities of Practice

[edit] Abstract

This paper details the design, implementation and evaluation of an ontology-based knowledge sharing tool. The system, "Squidz", automatically classifies browsed web pages against an ontology, and allows users to share comments made about those pages to members of a community. As the user browses web pages, recommendations of relevant documents which have already been shared are produced, based upon both the user's social network as well as the semantic content of the page currently in view.

Key to the design of the system has been the requirement, evidenced by earlier studies, that sharing should be easily effected as a side-effect of browsing rather than comprising a separate and distracting task. Another feature of the system is the linkage of a formal ontology with user-provided tags of shared information, thus combining the proven popularity of folksonomy-based systems with the shared and formal domain model provided by an ontology.

This data has been imported from the ESWC2007 RDF