CALT K-Base
CALT Project

Project Abstract

CALT K-Base: CALT Encyclopedia and Knowledge Wrapper

The CALT Encyclopedia consists of a structured set of pages that reference all the Web resources related to research projects conducted within CALT and at INSEAD in general. Two elements in particular are addressed in this system:

1. The design of a web architecture representing information and knowledge that is able to scale well as the content of the system grows (this content consists of a complex semantic network).
2. The identification of categories of sources of information & knowledge (article in magazine, journal, personal home page, newsgroup, etc.) that provides a rich perspective of how knowledge and information is made available to the user.

This project is now extended with the Knowledge Wrapper project which consists of a Zope object-oriented portal based on approach for managing easily sources of information of different types.

This project may integrate in the future agent-based mechanisms which would be used to automate maintenance tasks (or provide more advanced capabilities), as well as collaborative & social features (opinions, voting, etc.).