A knowledge search framework for collaborative networks

Abstract

Partners in a collaborative network (CN) must interact and share their knowledge. This paper focuses on how the knowledge exchanged in these interactions can be easily and precisely reached by CN partners through an knowledge search framework. In order to improve the search precision, ontologies are used to add metadata (semantic annotations) to documents as well as to provide support for semantic queries. This paper is also concerned to the CN-related requirements not addressed by current information retrieval solutions, like annotations consistency maintenance, multiple ontologies management, ontology mappings management and security issues. The proposed framework is being developed under the scope of the ECOLEAD Project as part of a broader ICT infrastructure for supporting CNs. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.