Towards the semantic web: ontology-driven knowledge management

Generating huge interest and backed by the global WorldWideWeb consortium the semantic web is the key initiative driving the future of the World Wide Web. Towards the Semantic Web focuses on the application of Semantic Web technology and ontologies in particular to electronically available information to improve the quality of knowledge management in large and distributed organizations. Ontologies are formal structures supporting knowledge sharing and reuse. They can be used to represent explicitly the semantics of structured and semi-structured information which enable sophisticated automati.

Introduction / J. Davies, et al. -- OIL and DAML+OIL: Ontology Languages for the Semantic Web / D. Fensel, et al. -- A Methodology for Ontology-based Knowledge Management / Y. Sure and R. Studer -- Ontology Management: Storing, Aligning and Maintaining Ontologies / M. Klein, et al. -- Sesame: A Generic Architecture for Storing and Querying RDF and RDF Schema / J. Broekstra, et al. -- Generating Ontologies for the Semantic Web: OntoBuilder / R. Engels and T. Lech -- OntoEdit: Collaborative Engineering of Ontologies / Y. Sure, et al. -- QuizRDF: Search Technology for the Semantic Web / J. Davies, et al. -- Spectacle / C. Fluit, et al. -- OntoShare: Evolving Ontologies in a Knowledge Sharing System / J. Davies, et al. -- Ontology Middleware and Reasoning / A. Kiryakov, et al. -- Ontology-based Knowledge Management at Work: The Swiss Life Case Studies / U. Reimer, et al. -- Field Experimenting with Semantic Web Tools in a Virtual Organization / V. Iosif, et al. -- A Future Perspective: Exploiting Peer-to-Peer and the Semantic Web for Knowledge Management / D. Fensel, et al. -- Conclusions: Ontology-driven Knowledge Management -- Towards the Semantic Web? / J. Davies, et al.