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Ontologies are reference conceptual models that formally describe the consensus about a domain and that are both human-understandable and machine processable. Ontologies are a key technology to realising the next, smarter, generation of the World Wide Web, known as the Semantic Web. We give an overview of recent developments, issues, and experiences in Semantic Web re-search, and especially discuss the role of ontologies in innovative intelligent e-applications. This paper discusses as a particular example the On-To-Knowledge project for ontology-based knowledge management. It aims to speed up knowledge management, dealing with large numbers of heterogene-ous, distributed, and semi-structured documents typically found in large com-pany intranets and the World Wide Web, by: (1) a toolset for semantic infor-mation processing and user access; (2) OIL, an ontology-based inference layer on top of the World Wide Web; (3) validation by industrial case studies in knowledge management.
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Akkermans, H. (2003). Ontologies and their Role in Knowledge Management and E-Business Modelling. In: Kosanke, K., Jochem, R., Nell, J.G., Bas, A.O. (eds) Enterprise Inter- and Intra-Organizational Integration. ICEIMT 2002. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 108. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35621-1_8
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