Semantic Technologies & Knowledge Management

A place to share and record my thoughts on things related to semantic technologies and knowledge management - semantic web, RDF, OWL, DAML, meta data, ontologies, semantic integration, text mining, classification, taxnomies, controlled vocabularies, first-order, horn and description logics, semantic technology tools, possible applications in wide variety of contexts, hype, myths, realities, and everything else.

Knowledge Management (KM), especially in the context of engineering knowledge, has been one of my fascinations for a while now. My doctoral dissertation addressed the KM issues, along with process collaboration issues, in the context of large, multi-disciplinary engineering organizations. Things have gotten even more complex now with the growth of extended enterprises and global value chains through out which the knowledge is spread. We have come a long way in terms of technological advancements over the last decade that can benefit KM. Recent advances in collaboration tools, intra- and extranets, document management systems, data and text mining, taxonomy and categorization algorithms, NLP, ontologies and Semantic Web are a few advances that are noteworthy.

This blog will try to capture any thoughts that cross my mind that relate to Semantic Web and KM. Please feel free to email me your comments.