Recommending and Finding Multimedia Resources in Knowledge Acquisition Based on Web Resources

Personal knowledge acquisition in a world where people have to acquire knowledge for task completion on the job constantly is done increasingly based on Web resources. Web resources ranging from mainly text based forms like Wikis up to multimedia resource like videos document knowledge and can be used for knowledge acquisition. Due to the participation of communities in creating content in Web 2.0 applications the mass of available resources increases steadily. Searching for high quality and reliable resources using a search engine becomes impossible. Thus, recommending relevant resources becomes more and more important. For this learning scenario, we present and compare different approaches for recommendation of multimedia resources we integrated in an application for collaborative management of Web resources for learning purposes, called CROKODIL.