(for: executives and business implementers)

Knowledge Technologies – a Business Perspective
Chair: Jim Stock, Managing Director, empolis UK, United Kingdom

Knowledge on the Web: state of the nation and outlook for the future
Daniel Rivers-Moore, Director of New Technologies, RivCom, United Kingdom
HTML gave us pages on the Web; XML gives us data on the Web; but to bring us knowledge on the Web requires a new paradigm. This presentation will define the challenges and review the initiatives that will bring the "next revolution" in the Web.

Topic Maps and the Business of Knowledge
H. Holger Rath, empolis GmbH, Germany
Topic Maps are designed for structuring large information pools and representing explicit knowledge. The talk presents the most important application domains and business models of Topic Maps.

SERUBA - A New Search and Learning Technology for the Internet and Intranets
Winfried Schmitz-Esser, Managing Director, SERUBA GmbH, Germany; Jan Algermissen, Chief IT, SERUBA GmbH, Germany
The paper describes a multi-lingual, ontology-based system for user support and learning in very large, non-domain specific, network environ-ments. The languages implemented are English, Spanish, French and German. As a World first, true seman-tic Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) on topics of general interest can be enabled by this system.

(for: executives and business implementers)

Knowledge Technologies – a Business Perspective
Chair: Jim Stock, Managing Director, empolis UK, United Kingdom

A World to Discover: A Topic Map for Thomas Mann
Ingrid Schmidt, Senior Information Architect and Carolin Müller, Information Architect, VIA informationsarchitekturen, Germany
A new attempt of knowledge organization is semantic nets using the Topic Map notation. This is a challenging task, mainly as the Thomas Mann project has to cope with real world topics as well as with fictional ones spread over different time periods.

XML – Application Integration and Knowledge Management
Carla K. Corkern, Vice President, Customer Service, DataChannel, USA
How do we keep up with the changing world? Organizations are struggling to provide access to data that is trapped in various proprietary forms including ERP systems, catalogs, databases, Human Resource systems and documents.

The Power of Cocoon for Web-Enabled Knowledge Sharing
Marcus V. Goncalves, Chief Knowledge Officer, Virtual Access Networks, USA
Learn about an XML-based technology, known as ICE, which through connectivity ports, ICE crystals, is able to communicate with a multitude of applications, enabling data to be extracted, transformed, exchanged and redirected across wired or wireless.

BibTeXML: An XML Representation of BibTeX Data
Erik Wilde, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
BibTeX is the defacto standard for bibliographic data > in > the scientific community. The advantages of BibTeXML are the availability > of > BibTeX data on the one hand, and the powerful transformation and > presentation methods provided by XML on the other hand