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Abstract:

Christian Gütl discusses a proposal for improvements to get to a more structured and personalized World Wide Web. The aim of this article is to discuss a vision, an idea of a possible way of providing existing Web content with more structure and context, which may help users to get more relevant information from the Internet as well as automated software to collect and process task information.

The strength of Integrated Framework for Augmentation and Enrichment of Knowledge (IFAEK) allows, unlike recent systems, the combination of additional information from more than one meta-service within the content of a particular Web document. Therefore individual meta-information from several sources related to users needs and their user profile can be provided. This will support and improve users identifying, browsing, managing and evaluating Web content, and therefore build a smarter Web. Furthermore,some advanced, improved and novel services, even commercial services, are made possible by IFAEK. IFAEK may handle current and future client applications (e.g. PC, PDA, WAP phones, set-top boxes and hands-free browsing systems) and information services to build a more powerful net of information sources on the Web by the use of combination and integration of distributed information systems.