Ontologies for a university web portal

• Main Authors: Rosli, D’oria Islamiah, Adruce, Shahren Ahmad Zaidi
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: LB2300 Higher Education; TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/11417/1/575-578-CR195.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/11417/; http://www.kmice.cms.net.my/

The advancement of Web technologies provide diverse means to support learning in a flexible and a personalized manner.Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which information is given in a well-defined meaning, enabling computers and people to work closely.One of the standard components in Semantic Web is Ontology, which is the center of focus in this study.List of phrases were gathered from the university’s web portal s and then examined and content-analyzed before being categorized. The study uncovers phrases commonly used by web designers other than the portal’s information infrastructure used in Malaysian universities’ web portals. It is hoped that findings from this study will contribute to the standard ontology used to update university’s web sites in Malaysia.