Towards a corporate semantic web

Corporate Semantic Web aims at bringing semantic technologies to enterprises for gaining, managing, and utilizing knowledge as one of the critical resources for their success in a quickly changing and highly competitive world. It provides solutions in three main application areas for semantic technologies, namely semantic engineering, semantic search, and semantic collaboration in cooperations. It does not only address the technological aspects, but also the organizational and pragmatic aspect of actually using semantic technologies in enterprises, which includes learning and training aspects as well as economical considerations in the sense of entrepreneurial usages of Semantic Web technologies. This paper discusses the applications, objectives, challenges and realization of the vision of the Semantic Web in controlled environments of corporations. -- Corporate semantic web ; knowledge management ; collaboration ; semantic search ; ontology engineering