Business activities rely on people?s understanding and interpretation of information. Meaning (semantics) is incorporated in the way information is defined and structured. From a semantics point of view information models range from low level semantics, such as taxonomies and data dictionaries,...

This paper reports on findings from the first stage of an exploratory study into the factors that influence the diffusion of ontologies in the Road Asset Management sector in Australia. The study investigates issues related to the diffusion of standard information models (taxonomies, road...