Business semantics as an interface between enterprise information management and the web of data: A case study in the flemish public administration

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 138 LNBIP, Issue , 2013, Pages 208-233

  Debruyne, Christophe ^a   De Leenheer, Pieter ^b,c  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Collibra nv/sa ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Business Semantics Management; Conceptual Modeling; Knowledge Management; Ontology Engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTABILITY AND DECIDABILITY; DATA MINING; INDUSTRY; INTEROPERABILITY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CONCEPTUAL MODELING; ENTERPRISE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; FORMAL SPECIFICATION; KNOWLEDGE MODELING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; SEMANTICS MANAGEMENT; TOOLSUITE; WEB OF DATUM;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84872698910     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36318-4_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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