Koji Zettsu, Yutaka Kidawara, Yasushi Kiyoki
Developing next generation web as collaboration media
Developing next generation web as collaboration media
Keywords: Global Knowledge Grid, SOA, knowledge web
Beyond the semantic web era, digital contents are not the key assets of the web any more, but the knowledge acquired from the web contents plays an important role for users to understand situations, make decisions and/or take actions. Considering knowledge as a key asset, it is worthwhile to renovate the traditional content-centered framework of web lifecycle so as to be a knowledge-centered one. We introduce the Global Knowledge Grid, a distributed knowledge service computing environment based on the service-oriented architecture (SOA). It facilitates data-centric collaborations of different types of knowledge services: knowledge capture, knowledge association, and knowledge provision. An evolving network of knowledge is built by interconnecting heterogeneous knowledge sites over the global knowledge grid.