Facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities ahead in the knowledge economy, managing knowledge has been a priority for many organisations. Knowledge Management (KM) emerges and has quickly gained weight in research both from information systems perspective and management sciences. An amply...

Groupwareplattformen im schulischen Umfeld sind seit vielen Jahren fest im Schulalltag integriert (Stahl 2004, S. 163). Die Akzeptanz vieler Systeme leidet aber an einer umständlichen Bedienung und einem nicht bedürfnisgerechten Funktions-angebot (Jiang et al. 2005, S. 570). Zudem scheint die...

One of the key factors that hinders integration of distributed, heterogeneousinformation systems is the lack of a formal basis for modeling the complex, structuredknowledge that is to be exchanged. To alleviate this situation, we present anapproach based on core ontologies. Core ontologies are...