Building Integrative Enterprise Knowledge Portals with Semantic Web Technologies

Abstract

The goal of this chapter is to show how Semantic Web technologies can help build integrative enterprise knowledge portals. Three main areas are identified: content management and metadata, global searching, and the integration of external content and applications. For these three areas the state-of-the-art as well as current research results are discussed. In particular, a metadata-based information retrieval and a context-based port let integration approach are presented. These have been implemented in a research prototype which is introduced in the Internet session at the end of the chapter.