INtrODUctION The importance of knowledge management has been recognized both in academia and in practice. In recent years, corporations have started talking about knowledge management, organizational learning, organizational memory, and computerized support. A few years ago, Microsoft®'s awareness of knowledge management and corporate memory was demonstrated by Bill Gates through his keynote sp...

Every day, millions of new images, videos and audios are uploaded to the web. However, unlike text-based content, audio and video objects cannot be indexed by search engines. Thus, much valuable multimedia content stay unreachable for a great majority of online users. To overcome this problem we introduce a technique that automatically generates semantically enhanced descriptions of audio and v...

Internet-based collaborative networking applications, such as instant messaging, voice-over-IP telephony, and social networking, have displaced traditional communication services and redefined social interaction. The Internet has also transformed the music industry, revolutionizing the way music is distributed and marketed. Yet despite these two powerful trends, the intersection—where collabora...

Current digital libraries and online bibliographies share several properties with the Web and thus also share some of its problems. Faceted classifications and Semantic Web technologies are explored as possible approaches to improving digital libraries and alleviating their respective shortcomings. We describe the possibilities of using faceted navigation and its personalization in digital libr...

This paper presents a background of a project undertaken at Sohar University to implement a web based plagiarism detection system for academic activities. Digital content in academic environments are created by academics and students. This Digital content is research publications and assessment submissions – assignments. Academic Digital content once created needs to be verified for non-violati...

There has been considerable speculation of late that the design of hypermedia and Web-based systems warrants new methods different from those used in conventional software design (Kautz & Nørbjerg, 2003). However, much confusion abounds within this debate because fundamental concepts such as hypermedia, multimedia, and Web-based systems are rarely explicitly defined and it is often unclear what...

TV and Web convergence is becoming more and more a reality. This paper provides an overview of the opportunities and challenges that arise in future TV environments regarding unobtrusive, context-aware personalisation of digital media content. Subsequently, it describes the vision and first conceptual personalisation approach within the LinkedTV EU project. LinkedTV aims to seamlessly interlink...

Information shared in online social networks is subject to privacy policies specified in each network. These privacy terms protect users to some extent and grant them some basic rights on the information they share. In the near future, and according to the Web 2.0 philosophy, social networks members will be able to choose their privacy preferences more richly, and perhaps with techniques derive...

Digital technologies are becoming extremely important for web-based cultural heritage applications. This thesis presents novel digital technology solutions to ̳access and interact‘ with digital heritage objects and collections. These innovative solutions utilize service orientation (web services), workflows, and social networking and Web 2.0 mashup technologies to innovate the creation, interpr...