Visualizing a Dynamic Knowledge Map Using Semantic Web Technology

• Authors: Hong-Gee Kim;Christian Fillies;Bob Smith;Dietmar Wikarski
• Venue: EDCIS '02 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Engineering and Deployment of Cooperative Information Systems
• Year: 2002

Visual knowledge maps are being used to improve the communication processes within global organizations. Knowledge maps are graphical presentations of ontological knowledge as well as of business processes. Especially for enterprises working in a multi-cultural space the explicit formalization of knowledge and business rules using graphical models seems to be a very promising approach in order to improve discussion and learning processes. Publishing and automatic inference or search techniques are becoming available due to the latest standards for Semantic Web worked out by W3C. This article gives an impression how to create end user interfaces for the "Corporate Knowledge Base" using MS Office and Visio with the modeling tool SemTalk. Several problems on capturing and maintaining large scale knowledge bases are discussed. Specific attention is given to the problem of weighting and association of information from orthogonal ontologies, which arises while using the same concepts in different graphical scenarios.