http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-552/Tanaka-KF08.pdf

This paper focuses on knowledge federation from different aspects; its taxonomy, its necessity, and its required technologies. There are three different aspects of knowledge federation, namely, semantic federation, service federation, and view federation. Each knowledge federation uses at least one of these aspects. The latter half of this paper focuses on ad hoc knowledge federation of Web resources including Web applications. Ad hoc knowledge federation deals with two of the three aspects, i.e., service federation and view federation. This paper reviews the current author’s R&D on meme media technologies and ad hoc knowledge federation based on them, and then proposes an extension of the Web toward ‘the memetic Web,’ in which users’ collaborative reediting and redistribution of Web resources accelerates the evolution of extended Web resources. Finally, it introduces a new version of the meme media system IntelligentPad as an enabling technology for the memetic Web. This new version runs on de facto standard browsers empowered by Silverlight plug-in, and requires no IntelligentPad kernel running on clients.