This article describes Pharos, a new service that has been developped to help groups of Web users share their knowledge about interesting documents. Pharos relies on a collaborative infrastructure which allows user groups to index and evaluate documents on specific topics. This information, possibly subjective, is synthesized to produce personalized recommendations.
Scalability is handled by distributing servers and replicating their databases.
Pharos has been implemented in Java and is currently being evaluated. Pharos, un nouveau service d velopp pour aider les utilisateurs du Web partager la connaissance qu'ils en ont. Ces donn es, qui peuvent tre subjectives, sont synth tis es afin de produire des recommandations personnalis es. Java et est actuellement en cours d' valuation. Order hardcopy by e-mail.