VPOET: Using a Distributed Collaborative Platform for Semantic Web Applications

TL;DR

VPOET introduces a distributed wiki-based platform that enables collaborative development and exploitation of Semantic Web applications, demonstrated through a Google Gadgets-based case study.

Contribution

It presents a novel collaborative platform for Semantic Web application development and shows how it can integrate various Semantic Web technologies in practical web applications.

Findings

Successful development of a Semantic Web application using VPOET

Demonstrated integration of Semantic Web technologies in a web platform

Enhanced cooperative knowledge building among developers

Abstract

This paper describes a distributed collaborative wiki-based platform that has been designed to facilitate the development of Semantic Web applications. The applications designed using this platform are able to build semantic data through the cooperation of different developers and to exploit that semantic data. The paper shows a practical case study on the application VPOET, and how an application based on Google Gadgets has been designed to test VPOET and let human users exploit the semantic data created. This practical example can be used to show how different Semantic Web technologies can be integrated into a particular Web application, and how the knowledge can be cooperatively improved.