FRAMEWORK FOR BUILDING OF A DYNAMIC USER COMMUNITY (EPH) - Sharing of Context-Aware, Public Interest Information or Knowledge through Always-on Services

Monica Vlădoiu, Zoran Constantinescu

2008

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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Vlădoiu M. and Constantinescu Z. (2008). FRAMEWORK FOR BUILDING OF A DYNAMIC USER COMMUNITY (EPH) - Sharing of Context-Aware, Public Interest Information or Knowledge through Always-on Services . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-39-5, pages 73-78. DOI: 10.5220/0001678600730078


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@conference{iceis08,
author={Monica Vlădoiu and Zoran Constantinescu},
title={FRAMEWORK FOR BUILDING OF A DYNAMIC USER COMMUNITY (EPH) - Sharing of Context-Aware, Public Interest Information or Knowledge through Always-on Services},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={73-78},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001678600730078},
isbn={978-989-8111-39-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - FRAMEWORK FOR BUILDING OF A DYNAMIC USER COMMUNITY (EPH) - Sharing of Context-Aware, Public Interest Information or Knowledge through Always-on Services
SN - 978-989-8111-39-5
AU - Vlădoiu M.
AU - Constantinescu Z.
PY - 2008
SP - 73
EP - 78
DO - 10.5220/0001678600730078