Masterarbeit
Applying Web Engineering to turn a web catalog into a Collaborative Web Application
Completion
2020/12
Research Area
Intelligent Information Management
Students
Bach Tran
Advisers
Description
In the context of OpenScience, researchers are encouraged to
publish their research datasets in common data repositories so that others can find and
reuse it. As the files contained in such a research dataset are commonly not
self-descriptive, the authors have to provide additional meta-information about the
nature, format and content of this dataset. By using established terminologies with unique
concept identifiers, researchers can make sure, that the provided meta information is
structured, unambiguous and appropriate for retrieval activities in the future. Several
web-based terminology catalogs already exist providing services for accessing a collection
of relevant taxonomies. However, the current data presentation and management is driven by
controlled and multiple times reviewed vocabularies and therefore often quite static.
Provided terms might be incomplete, outdated or even contain wrong information. Instead,
it would be a benefit if such a knowledge base of research-related concepts can be
extended by a broader community, including the creation of missing terms, the
categorization of existing concept groups and the interlinking between related
concepts.
The objective of the Master's thesis project is to
discuss and assess the extension of traditional terminology services with collaborative
features. Collaborative features may encompass adding, updating, versioning, voting,
tagging and linking concepts/terms if they relate to similar aspects of the real world.
The use case can be limited to a particular research domain, such as research concepts
relevant for human-machine interaction, and to a particular base application such as
Skosmos.
After describing the current situation and a motivating
scenario, a requirement analysis has be performed first. Then, a state-of-the-art analysis
concerning existing approaches has to be conducted. A concept has to be designed and
described, in which necessary model/view/controller extensions of such a web-based
terminology application are discussed that are requirded to realize a collaborative
behavior. An implementation and evaluation has to show the feasibility and acceptance of
these extensions.
