LinkZoo: A linked data platform for collaborative management of heterogeneous resources

Abstract

Modern collaborations rely on sharing and reusing heterogeneous resources. The ability to combine different types of information objects in semantically meaningful ways becomes a necessity for the information-intensive requirements of collaborative environments. In this paper we present LinkZoo, a web-based, linked data enabled platform that allows users to create, manage, discover and search heterogeneous resources such as files, web documents, people and events, interlink them, annotate them, exploit their inherent structures, enrich them with semantics and make them available as linked data. LinkZoo easily and intuitively allows for dynamic communities that enable web-based collaboration through resource sharing and annotating, exposing objects on the Linked Data Web under controlled vocabularies and permissions.