Supporting the Collaborative Editing of Documents with Real-Time Content Recommendations

Abstract

A new culture of participation and social innovation is driven by advances in Web technology and the proliferation of social media platforms. The document editing environment introduced in this paper reflects this trend, enabling users to collaboratively create and edit documents. In order to support this process, the system provides tailored information services in the form of content recommendations based on the evolving text of the co-authored documents. The context-sensitive editor is part of the real-time synchronization framework of the Media Watch on Climate Change, a public Web intelligence portal that provides a rich repository of environmental knowledge and a portfolio of visual components including tag clouds, keyword graphs and geographic projections.