Personal Publication Reader

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 publication data is extracted from several websites distributed accross europe with the aid of the Lixto suite and converted to RDF using Dublin Core vocabulary. By mapping the authors of publications to instances of an ontology which models researchers and their involvements in organizations the PPR is able to benefit from the content and structure of the so-called Researcher Ontology: On the one hand additional information about the authors (like mail, employer, etc.) can be presented to the user and on the other hand the structure can be used to point to related publications (e.g. publications of researchers that are involved in the same project like the author of the actual publication viewed by the user).

The PPR is based on the Personal Reader Framework and was awarded at the ISWC 2005 within the context of the Semantic Web Challenge.