3-5 PM in Showers 100B.
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Title: *Event-based Infrastructure for Reconciling Distributed
Annotation Records
*Abstract:* Information is spread all over the Web in various locations
including centralized repositories, web servers and user desktops.
Centralized repositories represent the old fashion techniques for
resource sharing, whereas completely decentralized systems such as P2P
systems allow users to share information without depending on a third
party repository. The necessities to find and share information led to
development of emergent Web 2.0 applications. These new Web 2.0
applications such as social bookmarking tools introduce a new way of
sharing information rather than the old fashion and P2P systems do.
Social bookmarking tools address the challenging problems of finding and
sharing information among small groups, teams and communities. Various
types of social bookmarking tools developed their own systems to support
different kind of resources. Flickr, for example, allows the sharing of
photos, del.icio.us the sharing of bookmarks, Bibsonomy, CiteULike and
Connotea the sharing of scholarly publications, YouTube the sharing of
video, and 43Things even the sharing of goals in private life. Social
bookmarking tools for sharing of scholarly publications among these
solutions are not interoperable with each other and they have
limitations for representing the complete metadata of scientific
documents and providing timestamp information for updated records.
In this dissertation, we present service enabled Event-based
Infrastructure to provide an efficient, scalable, flexible and modular
architecture to represent and reconcile metadata of scholarly
publications coming from various sources. The system utilizes
Event-based Infrastructure and adopts time-based and strict consistency
enforcement approaches to represent the content of scientific documents
located at several annotation tools consistent with each other with the
added metadata fields and capabilities. We also present an empirical
evaluation of the system to demonstrate applicability of this
architecture to handle with the issues that exist in the annotation
tools for scholarly publications.
