Semantics @ Work: Ontology Management - Tools and Techniques

Semantic technologies typically take part in the challenge of managing the massive amounts of information that we are facing today. A series of standardization efforts, research and industrial projects have led to semantic technologies that are mature enough to be part of business systems. Fundamental to the creation and sustained operation of semantic systems is successful ontology management. The 2008 state of the art of ontology management with its key tasks ontology design, ontology evolution, ontology mapping and ontology reasoning is presented in this book. This book is a first result of the German Theseus project, funded by the German federal ministry of economics and technology.