Ontologies for Collaborative Networked Organizations

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Author(s): Joël Plisson (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia), Peter Ljubic (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia), Igor Mozetic (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)and Nada Lavrac (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia, and University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 8
Source title: Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Goran D. Putnik (University of Minho, Portugal)and Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch148

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Social Computing / Virtual Communities & Virtual Reality

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It is commonly agreed that networking, as a new way of collaboration, brings benefit to its members (Camarinha- Matos & Afsarmanesh, 2005). Collaboration implies communication and sharing of knowledge between network participants. However, as the participants may be from different fields or may follow a different problem solving philosophy, it is necessary to introduce a mechanism to share common understanding of the information and to agree on a controlled vocabulary used for communication. An ontology provides a representation of knowledge, which can be used and re-used, in order to facilitate the comprehension of concepts and relationships in a given domain, and the communication between different domain actors, by making the domain assumptions explicit. These actors can be either software agents or people that need to access or share a piece of information (Gruber, 1993).

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