Study on Intelligent Information Integration of Knowledge Portals

Abstract

Web-based information portals provide a point of access onto an integrated and structured body of information about some domain. Knowledge portals are information portals, which make an important contribution to enabling enterprise knowledge management by providing users with a consolidated, personalized user interface that allows efficient access to various types of information. Portlets are mainly ways to present contents in knowledge portals. They are a group of components, which can be involved by a portal container. However, there are lacks no interaction between those portlets. This paper discusses information integration aspects within knowledge portals and presents an approach for communicating the user context (revealing the user’s information need) among portlets, utilizing ontologies technologies.