Towards making semantic web more collaborative for novice users

Abstract

Day by day semantic metadata is increasing and it is becoming more difficult to search the required data and get the accurate information. Tools are developed for performing different operations over the semantic web, but these operations can only be performed by the domain experts or users with prior knowledge of semantic web. In order to get full usage, the semantic tools must be developed in a way that novice users can also explore the tool easily without having domain specific background. One of the main reasons behind the less adoptability, by the novice user, is lack of usability. This thesis tends to provide a brief introduction of basic semantic web technologies and standards followed to develop tools. After that a little background about the existing tools is provided and then the proposed solution CSWP (Collaborative Semantic Web Platform) is discussed in detail. Then a comparison from the other tools is provided and at the end conclusion is provided.