Subject: Thesis Practice Talk on Monday(September 29,2008) 2:00-4:00 pm in Room 100B
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:15:31 -0400
From: Ahmet Topcu <atopcu@indiana.edu>
To: Marlon Pierce <mpierce@cs.indiana.edu>
Hi Marlon,
I will give my practice talk on Monday, September 29th at 2:00pm in
Showers Conference Room 100B.
Title: Integrated Collaborative Information Systems
Abstract:
The evaluation of the Web shows that people want to access information
easily, store them in a personal way, and share them with the others.
There are numerous tools and services built in recent years in different
categories having Web 2.0 capability. Examples include Social
Bookmarking Tools (YouTube, del.icio.us, Flickr,), Blogs (blogger.com,
Google Blog), Social Networking Tools (MySpace, LinkedIn), Web Search
Tools (Google Scholar, Windows Live Academic) other related tools. New
tools and services are built and open to the Web community continuously.
New blogs and data are published every second. The users of these tools
have the opportunity to use different tools and decide the best ones in
their perspective. Users don't need to know about the version of the
tools and services. However, having many tools in similar areas is a
problem. If a user wants to use some other tools, how can the user move
the data from the previous tool to the new tool? What if the user
decides to use similar tools in the same environment and compare
information at the same time? In other words, users should have a
flexible environment to use multiple tools at the same time. In the
current Web 2.0 domain, it is not easy to say that which tools and
services are the best because of the large number of existing tools and
the continuous development of new tools. We have defined integration
architecture to combine similar tools and use multiple services to user
community to solve this problem.
In this dissertation, we present integration model and its components
using web-accessible data and services and test application based on our
integration infrastructure to evaluate our solution. The architecture
have the following capabilities: (i) Tagging and linking of people
through uploading and downloading of information; (ii) Sharing
information; (iii) Supporting scientific research community; (iii)
Integrating the new tools as they are generated in a specific area; (iv)
Providing a dynamic environment in which the user can benefit from the
capabilities of different tools; (v) Allowing rich content. This
architecture also provides interchange standards for common metadata
format and provides structure for lowering the risk for user. This model
is motivated by the above concerns to provide flexible mechanism to
integrate similar Web 2.0 tools which have similar data model. We also
present evaluation of the system to demonstrate applicability of this
architecture integrating various search and annotation tools for
scholarly publications.
thanks,
Ahmet Topcu
