Semantic web portals: state‐of‐the‐art survey
Abstract
Purpose
To present the state of the arts application of semantic web technologies in web portals and corresponding achievable improvements for identifying the potential improvement made by semantic web technology.
Design/methodology/approach
An evaluation scheme is proposed to investigate various web portals that make use of semantic web technologies in order to identify their strengths and weaknesses. This scheme consists of three layers: information access, information processing and grounding technologies. Two academic portals and two commercial portals are selected based on the definition of semantic web portal. Detailed evaluation based on the proposed scheme is conducted on these four select portals.
Findings
Semantic web technologies can definitely increase the information consistency and the information processing quality of web portals by using ontologies to model portal structure and consensus knowledge. Furthermore, semantic web services will be acting as the key technologies to lift current portals to next level.
Originality/value
This paper proposes an elaborated evaluation method for investigating various portals. It reveals the current status of semantic web applications in web portals.
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Citation
Lausen, H., Ding, Y., Stollberg, M., Fensel, D., Lara Hernández, R. and Han, S. (2005), "Semantic web portals: state‐of‐the‐art survey", Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 9 No. 5, pp. 40-49. https://doi.org/10.1108/13673270510622447
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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