ON THE SUITABILITY OF SEMANTIC WEB APPROACHES FORCORPORATE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Currently, Semantic Web approaches play an important role in the discussion of knowledgemanagement. Metadata, which contains formal machine-readable information about contents,is added to resources in order to enable machines to access resources which are otherwiseonly understandable to human users. In the following paper, we will examine the suitability ofSemantic Web technologies for knowledge management. We will portray the potential benefitsof this technology and analyze if these potential benefits can be realized in corporateknowledge management. Our paper will focus on technical aspects as well as on the generalperformance of knowledge management approaches based on metadata....