With the Multimedia Metadata Ontology (M3O), we havedeveloped a sophisticated model for representing among others the annotation,decomposition, and provenance of multimedia metadata. Thegoal of the M3O is to integrate the existing metadata standards andmetadata formats rather than replacing...

The semantics of rich multimedia presentations in the websuch as SMIL, SVG and Flash cannot or only to a verylimited extend be understood by search engines today. Thishampers the retrieval of such presentations and makes theirarchival and management a difficult task. Existing metadatamodels and...

Wenn Produkte und Dienstleistungen verstärkt in kooperativen Strukturen erstellt werden, so ist dashierbei entstehende und verwendete Wissen über die Kooperationspartner verteilt. Das Wissensmanagementmuss diese Verteilung berücksichtigen und es ermöglichen, implizites und explizitesWissen...

Classification schemes are an important issue in the collective use of large document collections. We have investigated the classification of technical documentations in two engineering domains: a steel mill and a sewerage plant company. In both cases we found a coexistence of different...

Currently, Semantic Web approaches play an important role in the discussion of knowledgemanagement. Metadata, which contains formal machine-readable information about contents,is added to resources in order to enable machines to access resources which are otherwiseonly understandable to human...