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Portal Support for Communities of Interest

In Ireland

NUIGalway

Ina O’Murchu

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

NUI Galway

Community PortalOutReach Center

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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!