| Authors: |
Mike Brown
and David Manzano-Macho
and José Angel Ramos (ed.) Gargantilla
|
| Editors: |
OntoWeb
|
| Tags: |
OntoWeb
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| Abstract: |
A decade on from the onset of the World Wide Web, its strengths and weaknesses have been clearly demonstrated. There is a generally recognised need to provide a more formal infrastructure for the global exchange of information. As stated in [Frau01];
“Today`s World Wide Web is fundamentally a publishing medium – a place to store and share images and text. Adding semantics will radically change the nature of the Web – from a place where information is merely displayed to one where it is interpreted, exchanged and processed. … In other words, the ultimate aim of the Semantic Web is to give users near omniscience over the vast resources of the Internet, turning the millions of existing database islands into a single gigantic database Pangea.”
The development of ontology technology, while not solely limited to supporting the development of the Semantic Web, nevertheless strongly relates to the above vision. In short, developing more mature ontology technology may help fuel the next generation of knowledge management solutions, moving away from solutions based primarily on document retrieval to content-driven services.
However, any technology paradigm shift must ultimately be supported by commercial success. This deliverable serves to summarise some of the main application types, i.e. business scenarios, to which ontology technology is currently being applied as well as initiating an on-going effort within OntoWeb to continually collect and communicate new business directions based on success stories from industry (the success stories themselves being primarily collated in the related deliverable [OntoWeb2.1]).
This list of business scenarios here is by no means exhaustive. In order to foster this deliverable of information collection a portal has been set up in order to allow members of the ontology community to give detailed accounts of their applications and experiences:
http://babage.dia.fi.upm.es/ontoweb/wp1/OntoRoadMap/index.html
Nevertheless, several business scenarios are detailed here. Each business scenario is defined in terms of: a general description, the business case (commercial advantages and risks), the main requirements, an overview of the status (state-of-the-art) and a review of some concrete applications. The business scenarios covered here include:
• Knowledge Management / Information Systems / Corporate Internets
• E-commerce
• Natural Language Applications
• Intelligent Information Integration
• Information Retrieval
• Semantic Portals (eCRM) |
@booklet{Brown.07.07.2004,
title = {Business Scenarios v2.0},
author = {Mike Brown and David Manzano-Macho and José Angel Ramos (ed.) Gargantilla},
editor = { OntoWeb},
number = {D1.2},
series = {deliverable EUproject},
year = {07.07.2004},
abstract = {A decade on from the onset of the World Wide Web, its strengths and weaknesses have been clearly demonstrated. There is a generally recognised need to provide a more formal infrastructure for the global exchange of information. As stated in [Frau01];
“Today`s World Wide Web is fundamentally a publishing medium – a place to store and share images and text. Adding semantics will radically change the nature of the Web – from a place where information is merely displayed to one where it is interpreted, exchanged and processed. … In other words, the ultimate aim of the Semantic Web is to give users near omniscience over the vast resources of the Internet, turning the millions of existing database islands into a single gigantic database Pangea.”
The development of ontology technology, while not solely limited to supporting the development of the Semantic Web, nevertheless strongly relates to the above vision. In short, developing more mature ontology technology may help fuel the next generation of knowledge management solutions, moving away from solutions based primarily on document retrieval to content-driven services.
However, any technology paradigm shift must ultimately be supported by commercial success. This deliverable serves to summarise some of the main application types, i.e. business scenarios, to which ontology technology is currently being applied as well as initiating an on-going effort within OntoWeb to continually collect and communicate new business directions based on success stories from industry (the success stories themselves being primarily collated in the related deliverable [OntoWeb2.1]).
This list of business scenarios here is by no means exhaustive. In order to foster this deliverable of information collection a portal has been set up in order to allow members of the ontology community to give detailed accounts of their applications and experiences:
http://babage.dia.fi.upm.es/ontoweb/wp1/OntoRoadMap/index.html
Nevertheless, several business scenarios are detailed here. Each business scenario is defined in terms of: a general description, the business case (commercial advantages and risks), the main requirements, an overview of the status (state-of-the-art) and a review of some concrete applications. The business scenarios covered here include:
• Knowledge Management / Information Systems / Corporate Internets
• E-commerce
• Natural Language Applications
• Intelligent Information Integration
• Information Retrieval
• Semantic Portals (eCRM)},
urldate = {2006-06-05},
keywords = {OntoWeb }
}
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