Authors:
Zoran Constantinescu
1
and
Monica Vlădoiu
2
Affiliations:
1
ZealSoft Ltd., Romania
;
2
PG University of Ploieşti Romania, Romania
Keyword(s):
User communities, social networks, social web, always-on services, context-aware information and knowledge, location-based information and knowledge, information and knowledge sharing.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Interactive and Multimedia Web Applications
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Telecommunications
;
Wireless and Mobile Computing
;
Wireless and Mobile Technologies
;
Wireless Information Networks and Systems
Abstract:
ePH aims to be a framework around a user-centred digital library core that stores regional information and knowledge and that boosts a self-developing community of transnational users around it. The digital library's content will be accessible through always-on context-aware services (location-based included). The users can get it or enhance it, according to their location: at home or office by using a computer, on road with a specific GPS-based device in the car, or off-line, off-road via mobile phone. The digital library will contain: public interest information (drugstores, hospitals, general stores, gas stations, entertainment places, restaurants, travel/accommodation, weather, routes etc.), historical/touristic/cultural information and knowledge, users' personal "war stories" (tracks, touristic tours, impressions, photos, short videos and so on), and users’ additions, comments or updates to the content. This content will come alive to ePH users based on their contextual interest
(e.g. geo-location). Our plan is to develop (as open source) the ePH system for our county of origin and to provide an easy-to-use how-to recipe to clone it for other regions.
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