Building Semantic Web Applications as Information/Knowledge Sharing Systems

Hideaki Takeda and Ikki Ohmukai: Building Semantic Web Applications as Information/Knowledge Sharing Systems, Workshop on End User Aspects of the Semantic Web, Colocated with the 2nd European Semantic Web Concference (ESWC2005), 2005.

In this paper, we propose the methodology to design Semantic Web applications that can be acceptable widely by ordinary people. We first analyze "miracle of web" as an information sharing tool that is basically difficult for people to accept. In order to overcome this point, Semantic Web applications should have two types of gratification simultaneously, i.e., instant gratification that can be obtained even without information/knowledge sharing, and delayed gratification that can be obtained through information/knowledge sharing. The gap between two types of gratification can be bridged by the translucence strategy that lures people into information/knowledge sharing by showing delayed gratification within kissing distance. We then show our experience to build information/knowledge sharing tools with the above methodology. One is Community Navigator that helps participants for a conference to share knowledge like topics and related people. The other is Semblog systems that helps weblog people to exhibit and exchange their information more.

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Semblog Project

Hideaki Takeda and Ikki Ohmukai: Semblog Project, Workshop on Activities on Semantic Web Technologies in Japan, Colocated with the 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2005), 2005.

Semblog Project aims to provide personal knowledge publishing tools with Semantic Web technologies, in particular, metadata technologies. Semblog tools provide an integrated environment for gathering, authoring, publishing, and making human relationship seamlessly to enable people to exchange information and knowledge with easy and casual fashion. We use lightweight metadata format like RSS to activate the information flow and its activities. We define three level of interest of information gathering and publishing i.e. "check", "clip" and "post" and provide suitable ways to distribute information according to the interest level. We currently provide two types of extended content aggregator and information retrieval recommendation applications. We also design new metadata module to define personal ontology that realizes semantic relations among people and Weblog sites.

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