Web 2.0-Based Semantic Data, Document and Event Management Environment

This paper presents a semantic data, document and event management environment, implemented as extensions to the open-source Liferay portal which provides enhanced support for storage and retrieval of data, metadata, user interaction and computational provenance and opens the door to new modes of search and navigation based on geospatial, social, provenance, and thematic contexts. This also enables discovery of relations among data, events, workflow and people. This environment, packaged as the CyberCollaboratory, provides a much richer interaction environment for groups and communities.