The Personal Publication Reader

This application demonstrates how to provide personalized, syndicated views on distributed web data using Semantic Web technologies. The application comprises four steps: The information gathering step, in which information from distributed, heterogenous sources is extracted and enriched with machine-readable semantics, the operation step for timely and up-to-date extractions, the reasoning step in which rules reason about the created semantic descriptions and additional knowledge-bases like ontologies and user profile information, and the user interface creation step in which the RDF-descriptions resulting from the reasoning step are interpreted and translated into an appropriate, personalized user interface. We have developed this application for solving the following real-world problem: We provide personalized, syndicated views on the publications of a large European research project with more than twenty geographically distributed partners and embed this information with contextua...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: SEMWEB
• Authors: Fabian Abel, Robert Baumgartner, Adrian Brooks, Christian Enzi, Georg Gottlob, Nicola Henze, Marcus Herzog, Matthias Kriesell, Wolfgang Nejdl, Kai Tomaschewski
• Keywords: Information Gathering Step, Reasoning Step, SEMWEB 2005, Syndicated Views