Portal Support for Communities of Interest In Ireland

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Portal Support for Communities of InterestIn
Ireland

• NUIGalway
• Ina OMurchu
• Stefan Decker

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Benefits of a Community Portal

• Increased opportunities for networking
• Explicit Relationships
• Availability of jobs, opportunities
• Availability of local information
• layer

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Structure
OutReach Center
Community Portal
NUI Galway
OutReach Center
Community
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Conventional Systems

• FOAF (the Original)
• Friendster http//www.friendster.com
• LinkedIn - http//www.linkedin.com
• http//www.ryze.com

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Fixed Relationship

• Community is hard to evolve
• Interests and Opportunities evolve
• Growing groups form subgroups

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Explicit Ontology

• Explicit Ontology makes it possible to tailor
  portal to specific irish needs and interest
  groups
• Deriving of Ontology in a Knowedge Engineering
  session

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Evolving Communities

• Community evolves
• Expressed through terms (Ontology)
• Research topics
• Emerging Semantics
• Derive Ontology out of User Interaction
• Evolution of Ontologies
• Change of Interests
• Emerging, evolving communities
• Adapt links and community based on Ontologies

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Digital Ireland butreal Community!