Towards Corporate Semantic Web: Requirements and Use Cases

Abstract In this report, we introduce our initial vision of the Corporate Semantic Web as the next step in the broad,eld of Semantic Web research. We identify re- quirements of the corporate environment and gaps between current approaches to tackle problems facing ontology engineering, semantic collaboration, and se- mantic search. Each of these pillars will yield innovative methods and tools during the project runtime until 2013. Corporate ontology engineering will improve the facilitation of agile ontology engineering to lessen the costs of ontology development and, especially, main- tenance. Corporate semantic collaboration focuses the human-centered aspects of knowledge management,in corporate contexts. Corporate semantic search is settled on the highest application level of the three research areas and at that point it is a representative for applications working on and with the appropri- ately represented and delivered background knowledge.