Securing the Information Sharing on Web 2.0
from 01.02.2009 to 31.01.2011
Web 2.0 has changed the technological landscape the Internet computing world today. The shift from traditional web which is also known as Web 1.0 is forced by the growing need for more efficient information sharing, collaboration and business processes. This technological transition to Web 2.0 paradigm also brings in new security and privacy concerns into existence which should protect the whole Rich Internet Application (RIA) components. Web 2.0 security concerns are divided into two basic categories namely: Physical security and Semantic security. The first category aims to cover issues such as secure and trustworthy data exchange. This group of security concerns can benefit from existing methodologies of web 1.0 to handle the security and trust issues. The semantic security concerns on the other hand, handle the information sharing in a higher level by exploiting the Semantic Web technologies in order to describe the shared knowledge in a computer- processable way. As a result the shared information can be combined with personal/organizational policies to protect the information in a collaborative environment like Web 2.0.
This project aims at providing reusable foundation components for information sharing that can be applied to existing RIAs vertically. To achieve this goal, challenges such as policy storage and integration, semi-automatic information annotation, semantic pattern matching, and integration of user profile should be addressed. The proposed components will be also applied to Mindmeister product (a Web 2.0 mind mapping tool) of our project partner to ease the information sharing and reuse as a proof of concept.
Contact Person:
Dr. Edgar Weippl