Towards a Semantic “Myportal”

Web portals are information-rich sites trying to provide a single “one stop” for end-users to their necessary Web information. However, they have the following problems. First, it’s difficult to locate relevant Web portals and their resources because of the information overload problem. Second, the current Web portals generally target human consumption not machine computing, so it’s not easy to aggregate and reuse their resources automatically. Third, current Web portals are centralized resources using fixed organizational schema targeting at uniform access by large numbers of people. However, “no one size can fit all” and personalization functionality is strongly required. Fourth, centralized systems are a bottleneck for accessing traffic, are not robust for failure and their maintenance is also expensive. In this paper, we incorporate Semantic Web technology with Web services technologies to present our approach on constructing a fully personalized Semantic “Myportal”. We also propose a mechanism for describing Web portal capabilities to enable precise and automatic location of relevant Web portals and the use of their services.