Collaborative Tasks using Metadata Conglomerates - The Social Part of the Semantic Desktop
Proceedings of the I-SEMANTICS ’08, (2008)Abstract
This paper1 presents an application that enables loose and ad-hoc task collaboration
for knowledge work and explicitly integrates task metadata into the collaboration process. With
the increasing availability of semantic desktop technology, knowledge workers (KWers) can
organize their personal information in a formalized way, including tasks. In an organization,
KWers need to collaboratively access task-related information and to collaboratively work on
it. In such a scenario, today’s available collaboration support applications, e.g. enterprise
collaboration systems like wikis, either sacrifice end-user experience or semantic richness when
dealing with structured knowledge. The presented collaborative task management (TM) application
circumvents this trade-off by showing how the Kasimir TM client and the Collaborilla
collaboration server interact closely. The TM client supports the KWer’s personal TM and incorporates
collaborative tasks. It invokes the collaboration server which centrally manages the
collaborative tasks. It implements elaborated methods for metadata sharing and collaborative
editing of this shared metadata. We present the detailed proposal for an underlying architecture
of the application, review related work and conclude this paper by pointing out future work.