This article discusses our development of a new web engine, the syzygy surfer, which aims to induce a search/browsing experience that is more creative than traditional search. We do this by purposefully combining the ambiguity of natural language with the precision of semantic web technologies. Here, we set out the framework for our investigation and discuss the context and background ideas tha...

Semantic Web technology is able to provide the required computational semantics for interoperability of learning resources across different Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Learning Object Repositories (LOR). The EU research project LUISA (Learning Content Management System Using Innovative Semantic Web Services Architecture) addresses the development of a reference semantic architecture f...

In this paper, we describe current efforts towards interlinking music-related datasets on the Web. We first explain some initial interlinking experiences, and the poor results obtained by taking a näıve approach. We then detail a particular interlinking algorithm, taking into account both the similarities of web resources and of their neighbours. We detail the application of this algorithm in t...

Distributed teams can carry out critical tasks with appropriate decision support technologies. The architecture and detailed design of a Web-based GDSS, called TeamSpirit, are discussed to address the challenges of building a Web-based GDSS. A series of empirical studies are reported to assess the effectiveness of TeamSpirit in supporting distributed group problem solving when in-person facilit...

What is Scribalab 2.0? A system to create web communities and a modular toolbox for writing and publish on the web. It is made up of two main sections both designed to welcome users and visitors. You can find challenging and interesting tools into the Scriba section, such as ScribaMapping or Scriba6HATS with suggestions for cooperative group activities on creative writing or having the opportun...

ing at the recent development of Web dances and Internet performances, it appears to me that a dance community has evolved in cyberspace. The emergence of the World Wide Web has led to an upsurge of creative exploration by dance artists as they discover, in ever-increasing numbers, this new technology’s potential. The pervasiveness of information and communications technologies has produced new...

Semantic Web technology is able to provide the required computational semantics for interoperability of learning resources across different Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Learning Object Repositories (LOR). The EU research project LUISA (Learning Content Management System Using Innovative Semantic Web Services Architecture) addresses the development of a reference semantic architecture f...

Search engines are the most utilized tools to access information on the Web, and they are widely used to support learning activities, even though they are specially used for acquiring factual knowledge, and do not support searching as learning tasks. In this paper we present SaR-Web, a search tool that allows the visualization of search results with a semantic added value in order to facilitate...