Managing and recommending resources in web-based collaborative working environments

Web-based Collaborative Working Environments intend to support collaborations between users by integrating and offering different collaborative tools. However, this makes it difficult for users to manage and find useful resources to advance their collaborations, which are stored distributively within these tools. This raises an issue: how to manage these resources and identify useful ones for users. In our research, we intend to consider a web-based Collaborative Working Environment as an ontology-based System of Information Systems and to apply a collaboration context ontology that can manage and recommend resources to users within the context of collaboration. In this paper, we present a prototype of such environments and show how context-aware resource recommendations can be generated.