Applicability Assessment of Semantic Web Technologies in Human Resources Domain

Research Framework

Semantic Web is one of the fastest developing fields within the ICT sector and, as such, under constant examination by scientists and IT professionals. Most of the academic work, up to now, has focused on the global public gains of adopting SW technologies (Alani et al., 2008), and to a significant degree has neglected the industry development and migration needs to meet the SW challenges.

Having in mind this situation, the present work will focus on:

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  Presenting a brief account of the key application areas of Semantic Web technologies and a summary of the achieved benefits from them (based on the analysis of the W3C collection of Case Studies and Use Cases), that will give a picture of the present status of the SW technology implementation and needs thereof in industry development sector, and

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  Presenting the results of a case study of the use of semantic technologies for integration and meaningful search and retrieval of expertise data, as an example of the new approaches to data integration and information management.