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Knowledge support in a living environment through utilisation of Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 technology
Last modified: 2009-11-24
Abstract
Over the last 14 years the gradual introduction, utilisation and rollout of the semantic web is rapidly gaining momentum; many companies are investing in the development of RDF’s to aid in the description of data. With major IT heavyweights such as Oracle, Sun and Microsoft also investing in RDF support the significance of the semantic web is realised. With the launch and release of many semantic web tools including semantic web ontology browsers such as Swoogle the semantic web will soon be a bigger reality than it ever was with a presence and saturation into the internet as the Web 2.0 and its services are today. It has been explained that: From one viewpoint, the Semantic Web is the symbiosis of Web technologies and knowledge representation (KR), which is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) concerned with constructing and maintaining (potentially complex) models of the world that enable reasoning about themselves and their associated information.
Various ontologies are rapidly developed and published for use. The FOAF ontology is already widely used and implemented in popular Web 2.0 sites such as FaceBook , YouTube and Flickr.
One area where the semantic web can greatly have a significant impact is in the areas of knowledge sharing in knowledge and resource poor communities especially in South Africa. Never before has the statement that the: “Web is the biggest potential source of knowledge” been truer. The envisaged rollout of Living Labs in SA is gaining popularity amongst various stakeholders, including the state and research institutes.
A Living Lab (LL) is a new way to deal with community-driven innovation in real-life context. The LL concept is fuelled by sharing, collaboration and experimenting in open real environments.
This paper would discuss how the utilisation of the semantic web and the related technologies for knowledge objects (KO). The KO could then be used in a reverse engineering process for the determination of the real user requirements of the Community centre. The KO’s could also be used to extrapolate the services that are to be rendered at the planned centre. Another key deliverable in the utilisation of KO is to determine the real needs of the community and to identify possible services to be rendered. The KO’s are also used to aid in the knowledge generation and storage processes of each of the strategic community members. Each communities needs are unique and we believe that the delivery of community specific services will really enhance the stickiness as well as the sustainability of the centre as a whole. The paper would also address the utilization of a knowledge support service as part of a portal that would be utilized by all LL stakeholders. Newer and emergent technologies such as OWL’s ontology’s and the semantic web as well as natural language processing are utilized in the framework.
The Question analysis’s tool is to be used and updated constantly in order to create new knowledge objects. This would enable the establishment of a KO repository that is up to date. An up to date repository would enable the governmental body to adapt the Centre on a real time basis to constantly address the current needs of the community.
Various ontologies are rapidly developed and published for use. The FOAF ontology is already widely used and implemented in popular Web 2.0 sites such as FaceBook , YouTube and Flickr.
One area where the semantic web can greatly have a significant impact is in the areas of knowledge sharing in knowledge and resource poor communities especially in South Africa. Never before has the statement that the: “Web is the biggest potential source of knowledge” been truer. The envisaged rollout of Living Labs in SA is gaining popularity amongst various stakeholders, including the state and research institutes.
A Living Lab (LL) is a new way to deal with community-driven innovation in real-life context. The LL concept is fuelled by sharing, collaboration and experimenting in open real environments.
This paper would discuss how the utilisation of the semantic web and the related technologies for knowledge objects (KO). The KO could then be used in a reverse engineering process for the determination of the real user requirements of the Community centre. The KO’s could also be used to extrapolate the services that are to be rendered at the planned centre. Another key deliverable in the utilisation of KO is to determine the real needs of the community and to identify possible services to be rendered. The KO’s are also used to aid in the knowledge generation and storage processes of each of the strategic community members. Each communities needs are unique and we believe that the delivery of community specific services will really enhance the stickiness as well as the sustainability of the centre as a whole. The paper would also address the utilization of a knowledge support service as part of a portal that would be utilized by all LL stakeholders. Newer and emergent technologies such as OWL’s ontology’s and the semantic web as well as natural language processing are utilized in the framework.
The Question analysis’s tool is to be used and updated constantly in order to create new knowledge objects. This would enable the establishment of a KO repository that is up to date. An up to date repository would enable the governmental body to adapt the Centre on a real time basis to constantly address the current needs of the community.
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