A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
Knowledge Acquisition - Special issue: Current issues in knowledge modeling
**DIR** -XML2 - unambiguous access to XML-based business documents in B2B e-commerce
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM conference on Electronic Commerce
A Portrait of the Semantic Web in Action
IEEE Intelligent Systems
ebXML: Status, Research Issues, and Obstacles
RIDE '02 Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering: Engineering E-Commerce/E-Business Systems (RIDE'02)
OCEAN: an ontology for supporting interoperability service utilities in virtual organisations
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
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In B2B e-commerce, XML provides means to exchange data between applications. It does not guarantee interoperability. On the syntactic level, this requires an agreement on an e-business vocabulary. Even more important, on the semantic level, business partners must share a common view unambiguously constraining the generic document types. In this paper, we present a framework that brings together work in the area of ontologies and work in the area of XML-based data interchange, namely ebXML. The framework uses an ontology based on ebXML corecomponents expressed in RDF to allow for bridging between different e-business vocabularies. Since a bridging mechanism is required, but not specified within ebXML, our approach complements ebXML. The integration of the ontology-based approach into ebXML is realized in four major steps. In this paper we exactly identify the requirements and the architecture of each step. This provides exact guidelines for future research towards implementing these steps.