CSCW in Design on the Semantic Web

Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) in Design explores the potential of computer technologies to help cooperative design. It requires more efficient technologies of communications and reusing knowledge in design process. This paper looks at CSCW in Design on the Semantic Web and shows how the Semantic Web technologies may improve the current design process. It describes using the Semantic Web technologies to represent design knowledge in a unified and formal form that can be understood by both people and machines and shows how this improve all kinds of communication processes in cooperative design. We study the great advantage of sharing and reusing design knowledge on the Semantic Web. This is very helpful in design process, and may completely change the current way of design.