Many virtual communities have surfaced and come together on the World Wide Web. Web-based community portals serve as a one-stop place for all information needs serving a group of users that have common interests. As organisations become highly dynamic and the people that join them become more geographically dispersed, the need for improved ways to …
Online community sites have replaced the traditional means of keeping a community informed via libraries and publishing. At present, online communities are islands that are not interlinked. We describe different types of online communities and tools that are currently used to build and support such communities. Ontologies and semantic web technologies offer an upgrade path …
Publication: Linking Semantically Enabled Online Community Sites Read More »
Ontologies are formal specifications of how to represent the entities in a specific area and the interrelations among them. In the Semantic Web, ontologies can be used to share and reuse knowledge via the Web and they can be seen as a means for knowledge management on a global scale. A specific wiki ontology can …
Publication: WikiOnt-An Ontology For Describing & Exchanging Wikipedia Articles Read More »
The motivation for this investigation in this paper is the development of a semantic social network portal (SSNP), which will support the efforts in enterprise training units to up-skill employees in the company and facilitate the creation and reuse of knowledge in online communities. A combination of a semantic web-based knowledge management framework and social …
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Social networks are a recent trend. Social networking sites (SNS) connect and present people based on information based on them and stored as their user profiles. The user profile determines the way in which the user is able to present themselves to others. The most important distinguishing factor is the range of profile information each …
Publication: Semantic Web Portal – Community Portal Survey Read More »
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