A semantic web-based approach for enhancing oral history management systems / Ahmad Zam Hariro Samsudin, Shah Jahan Miah and Michael McGrath

Semantic web (SW) technologies have become one of the well-accepted tools for
enhancing web application usages. However, this technology has not been still immature
for the enhancement of knowledge management (KM) system susages. This paper reports
an investigation on current issues of a KM system, so-called Oral History Management
Systems (OHMS) and benefits of SW over the issues. The study first conduct interviews to
identify issues and benefits of the current applications in parallel to a literature survey that
finds potential benefits and issues of SW technologies. The initial outcomes are then used
to develop both frameworks of current OHMS and preferred SW based in order to compare
for achieving the betterment of OHMS usages in the targeted problem context, specially for
enhancing decision making provisions. In this paper, we summarize the entire research
project highlighting not just a conceptual and theoretical issue, but also for the enhancement
of practical usages of OHMS across the Universities in Malaysia.