Information seeking in a "socio-semantic web" application

ABSTRACT

Information Seeking gives users a wider range of access methods when retrieving business items (e.g. projects, products, skills, people, deliverables …) using (intra-) Web applications. The Information Seeking approach we propose is based on the concept of the "Item", as defined in the Hypertopic model that we propose for mediating various "socio-semantic Web" applications. We show on an example, in the case of a sustainable development projects cooperative e-catalogue, how items can be viewed "semiotically", depending on various tags, topics and points of view.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval

Keywords:
cooperation, folksonomy, information seeking, socio-semantic web, web2.0