Lightweight Collaborative Web Browsing

Collaborative navigation systems provide a useful way for virtual groups to share information through the web. However, the common set of features of these tools is not enough to offer a more face-to-face-like browsing experience. To fill this gap, this paper presents a novel collaborative web browsing proposal, which aims at integrating notably flexible management of sessions, the maintenance of shared production spaces and efficient communication facilities. Also, the proposal relies on a collaboration ontology that provides a well defined conceptualization and a common vocabulary. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of our approach, OCEAN prototype was developed and tested.