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OntoWeb - Ontology-based information exchange for Knowledge Management and electronic commerce

(Dieter Fensel, Free University of Amsterdam)

The goal of the OntoWeb Network is to bring together researchers and industrials coming from the above mentioned research and applications areas , promoting interdisciplinary work and strengthening the European influence on Semantic Web standardisation efforts such as those based on RDF and XML. Europe's cultural diversity and multilinguality, together with the strong scientific competences existing in the ontology field, may give Europe a unique opportunity to fully exploit ontology-based technology and to play a leading role in these emerging areas.

The main long term goals of the network are:

To stimulate and support the transfer of research on the Semantic Web from academia to industry;
To stimulate the translation from industrial needs to technical and scientific problems;
To represent and co-ordinate ontology-related research being carried out in different research areas, such as: Web Markup Languages, Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Engineering, Knowledge Representation, Information systems and database integration, Information Retrieval, Language Engineering, Digital Libraries, Software Agents, and Machine Learning;
To disseminate information, research and application results about ontologies and related fields;
To represent the European ontology community world wide and co-operate with related initiatives like DAML in the US;
To enhance the training in ontology-related technologies at the European level;
To distribute results and stimulate applications in all areas, with special emphasis on Web-based applications, electronic commerce, and information integration;
To cooperate with content standardisation committees to promote the development of ontology-based standards and the harmonization/interoperability across different standards (with special emphasis on standards being developed for electronic commerce in the B2B area);

To cooperate with language standardisation committees as the W3C to promote the development of standard languages for meta data (future versions of RDF and RDFS).

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e-mail: dieter@cs.vu.nl
URL: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dieter