Personal Reader Framework

Personal Publication Reader

The Personal Reader Framework enables developers to create Semantic Web applications in a plug & play manner. Our architecture is based on of different types of services: Syndication Services implement the application logic and via a central Connector Service they are enabled to bind Personalization Services dynamically. Those Personalization Services provide domain-specific RDF data. Both, Personalization and Syndication Services are able to gain personalization by querying a shared RDF-based user profile encapsulated by a User Modelling Service.
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The Personal Publication Reader (PPR) provides a personalized access to publications and allows navigating through publications within an embedded context. The PPR gathers information about publications from distributed, heterogenous sources, extracts machine-readable semantics and enriches them with knowledge about authors, etc. so that rule-based reasoning can be used to provied context-adapted access.
The PPR is based on the Personal Reader Framework and was awarded at the ISWC 2005 within the context of the Semantic Web Challenge. Read more…



Personal Reader Agent



MyEar & MyNews

The Personal Reader Agent is a portal to Personal Reader infrastructures. It discovers Personalization Services and based on their semantic description it provides a user interface which enables users to configure and call these services. Made configurations of those arbitrary services can be shared and re-used. Personalization functionalities, like reuse of stored configurations of services which suit the users interests, result in an adaptive, personal Agent. Read more…

The MyEar music recommender enables users to listen to personalized podcasting feeds. MyEar is also realized with the aid of the Personal Reader Framework and provides a Personalization Service which searches the web for podcasting feeds that go with the users taste in music and combines items of this feed to produce a personalized podcasting feed. In a slightly other way the MyEar Personalization Service is used by the MyNews application which aims the creation of personalized news feeds. Read more…