A Collaborative Working Environment as an ontology-based collaborative System of Information Systems

Integrating various collaborative tools, a web-based Collaborative Working Environment can support collaborations between users. In collaborative processes, many resources are produced and stored distributively within these tools. This raises an issue: how to organize these resources in a Collaborative Working Environment. In our research, we intend to consider a Collaborative Working Environment as an ontology-based collaborative System of Information Systems and apply a collaboration context ontology for managing resources and generating resource recommendations to users. In this paper, we present a prototype of such environments and show how it can be used.