Purpose – The aim of this paper is introducing the concept of a “semantic learning organization” (SLO) as an extension of the concept of “learning organization” in the technological domain. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes existing definitions and conceptualizations of...

Purpose – Aims to investigate the way that the semantic web is being used to represent and process social network information. Design/methodology/approach – The Swoogle semantic web search engine was used to construct several large data sets of Resource Description Framework (RDF) documents...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to examine social networks from a Western and Eastern view. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses case study methodology to gather evidence of how world pioneering firms from Asia and Europe measure and report their social connections from a Western...

Purpose – This paper proposes solutions to problems related to the maintenance and update of already existing e‐learning courseware. Design/methodology/approach – A structured approach in form of a reference model for the re‐engineering of existing educational material is presented. In...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to review the characteristics of systems that combine P2P technology with explicit ontologies and assess the benefits of these technologies for inter‐organizational knowledge management. Design/methodology/approach – We characterize existing...

Purpose – To identify cases related to design of ICT platforms for industrial alliances, where the use of Ontology‐driven architectures based on Semantic web standards is more advantageous than application of conventional modeling together with XML standards. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – To illustrate the need for social network metadata within semantic metadata. Design/methodology/approach – Surveys properties of social networks and the semantic web, suggests that social network analysis applies to semantic content, argues that semantic content is more searchable...