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Enhancing Enterprise 2.0 Ecosystems Using Semantic Web and Linked Data Technologies:The SemSLATES Approach

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During the past few years, various organisations embraced the Enterprise 2.0 paradigms, providing their employees with new means to enhance collaboration and knowledge sharing in the workplace. However, while tools such as blogs, wikis, and principles like free-tagging or content syndication allow user-generated content to be more easily created and shared in the enterprise, in spite of some social issues, these new practices lead to various problems in terms of knowledge management. In this chapter, we provide an approach based on Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies for (1) integrating heterogeneous data from distinct Enterprise 2.0 applications, and (2) bridging the gap between raw text and machine-readable Linked Data. We discuss the theoretical background of our proposal as well as a practical case-study in enterprise, focusing on the various add-ons that have been provided to the original information system, as well as presenting how public Linked Open Data from the Web can be used to enhance existing Enterprise 2.0 ecosystems.

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  • Link Data
  • Semantic Annotation
  • SPARQL Query
  • Link Open Data
  • Simple Knowledge Organization System

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  1. Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

    Alexandre Passant & Stefan Decker

  2. IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan, Galway, Ireland

    Alexandre Passant & Stefan Decker

  3. STIH (Sens - Texte - Informatique - Histoire), Université Paris-Sorbonne, 28 rue Serpente, 75006, Paris, France

    Philippe Laublet

  4. School of Engineering and Informatics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland

    John G. Breslin

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Passant, A., Laublet, P., Breslin, J.G., Decker, S. (2010). Enhancing Enterprise 2.0 Ecosystems Using Semantic Web and Linked Data Technologies:The SemSLATES Approach. In: Wood, D. (eds) Linking Enterprise Data. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7665-9_5

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