Building a distributed system for dynamic information search, organization and classification for educational purposes

Our focus is on a Web-based Knowledge Portal for educational purposes. We consider a distributed system for information retrieval and document collection, which will enable different forms of knowledge construction. Also accessing information from multiple information systems and integrating them into a knowledge portal are key issues in developing our system. Some tools are considered to be used namely ontologies, concept maps and software agents to deal with semantic issues. Previous related initiatives are described and tools for dealing with semantics are also present. A comprehensive section on syntactic and semantic interoperability is described in detail. A very high-level architecture is drafted along with ideas to deal with its implementation