The need for Knowledge Management (KM) in Human Services is growing. New “Social Software”-solutions which came along with the so-called “Web 2.0” enable advanced possibilities of implementing KM-strategies in smaller agencies in the domain of Social Work. In the field of of human...

A user-centric architecture of infotainment content adaptation to the context is presented. The architecture uses component technologies in term of business logic and functionalities offered by social web (OpenID, FOAF) and semantic descriptions of MPEG-7 and MPEG-21. Technological alternatives...

Making effective use of RDF data published online (such as RDF DBLP, DBpedia, FOAF profiles) is, in practice, all but straightforward. Data might be fragmented or incomplete so that multiple sources need to be joined, different identifiers (URIs) are usually employed for the same entities,...

In the wide field of E-Commerce it has become well accepted to use RDF files based on ontologies for storing product data decentralized. The proposed poster demonstrates functionality and application of an add-on for the open source content management system (CMS) Typo3 called RDFCreator. The...

In this paper we present UsTag, an approach for providing user defined semantics for user generated content (UGC) and process those semantics with user defined rules. User semantics is provided with a tagging mechanism extended in order to express relationships within the content. These...

Thought interoperability has been gaining in importance and become an essential issue within the Semantic Web community, the main challenge of interoperability and data integration is still ontology matching. With this in mind, we wish to contribute to the enhancement of (semantic)...

Formal modelling is a challenging and expensive task, especially for people not familiar with design techniques and formal languages. In this paper we present the modelling experience within the APOSDLE EU-project, and we describe the methodology we have developed to support an integrated...

Existing information, knowledge and content infrastructures are currently facing challenging problems in terms of scalability, management and integration of various content and services. The latest technology trends, including Semantic Web Services, Grid computing and Intelligent Content Objects...