Limitations of community Web portals: a classmates' case study

We analyze typical Web portals supporting communication, data sharing and activities of former classmates. The inflexibility and restrictions imposed on users of such portals are demonstrated to support the thesis that introduction of community-driven ontology management is crucial for full-fledged satisfaction of the user needs on the semantic Web.

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