Integrated Collaborative Information Systems

The evaluation of the Web shows that people want to access information easily, store them in a personal way, and share them with the others. There are numerous tools and services built in recent years in different categories having Web 2.0 capability. related tools. New tools and services are built and open to the Web community continuously. New blogs and data are published every second. The users of these tools have the opportunity to use different tools and decide the best ones in their perspective. Users don't need to know about the version of the tools and services. However, having many tools in similar areas is a problem. If a user wants to use some other tools, how can the user move the data from the previous tool to the new tool? What if the user decides to use similar tools in the same environment and compare information at the same time? In other words, users should have a flexible environment to use multiple tools at the same time. In the current Web 2.0 domain, it is not easy to say that which tools and services are the best because of the large number of existing tools and the continuous development of new tools. In this dissertation, we present integration model and its components using web-accessible data and services and test application based on our integration infrastructure to evaluate our solution. The architecture have the following capabilities: (i) Tagging and linking of people through uploading and downloading of information; (ii) Sharing information; (iii) Supporting scientific research community; (iii) Integrating the new tools as they are generated in a specific area; (iv) Providing a dynamic environment in which v the user can benefit from the capabilities of different tools; (v) Allowing rich content. This architecture also provides interchange standards for common metadata format and provides structure for lowering the risk for user. This model is motivated by the above concerns to provide flexible mechanism to integrate similar Web 2.0 tools which have similar data model. We also present evaluation of the system to demonstrate applicability of this architecture integrating various search and annotation tools for scholarly publications.