Web2.0 and Knowledge Management

Web 2.0, the second phase in the Web's evolution, is attracting the attention of IT professionals, businesses, and Web users. Web 2.0 is also called the wisdom Web, people-centric Web, participative Web, and read/write Web. Web 2.0 harnesses the Web in a more interactive and collaborative manner, emphasizing peers' social interaction and collective intelligence, and presents new opportunities for leveraging the Web and engaging its users more effectively. Within the last two to three years, Web 2.0, ignited by successful Web 2.0-based social applications such as MySpace, Flickr, and YouTube, has been forging new applications that were previously unimaginable.

Current Project

Knowledge Intelligence Enhancing Semantic Wiki - Collaborated with Fudan University: Wikis are becoming popular knowledge management tools. Wikis support authoring and collaboration to a high extent and are popular due to their simplicity and easy collaborative access. However, wikis do not enable knowledge reuse and have only limited support for finding of existing knowledge and knowledge consistence maintenance. We are conducting a joint research project with Fudan University to work on the topic of Knowledge Intelligence Enhancing Semantic Wiki - Exploring Knowledge Consistence Maintenance of Semantic Wiki Based on Semantic Networks Reasoning. The project focuses on knowledge representation, discovery, reuse, resoning and consistence checking based on wikis. The goal is to help people to share and discover new knowledge better by wiki platforms.

Web2.0 Discussions

• Blogs

• Wiki and Collaboration

• Semantic Wiki

• Mashups

Web2.0 Resources

Some helpful resources:

• Dion Hinchcliffes Enterprise Web2.0 (http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe) reviews Web 2.0's progress and explores Web 2.0's enterprise applications.

• eConsultant: Ultimate Web Developers Lists and Web 2.0 Directory (http://www.econsultant.com/Web2/index.html) presents a categorized list of more than 1,000 Web 2.0 applications.

• KoolWEB 2.0 (http://www.koolWeb2.com) is a good place for finding new Web 2.0 applications, and it lets users submit services and rate existing services.

• Listible: Complete List of Web 2.0 Products and Services (http://www.listible.com/list/completelist-of-Web-2-0-products-and-services) is an excellent Web 2.0 resource.

• Mashable (http://www.mashable.com) presents research into social networks, particularly widgets and other social networking add-ons.

• ProgrammableWeb (http://www.programmableweb.com) presents the latest mashups, and new and interesting developments in Web 2.0 APIs and in the Web as a platform. It includes a blog and three dashboards' home, mashups, and APIs, which are updated daily.

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