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Semantic Enterprise Search (but no Web 2.0)

 

Ronald Winnemöller

 

The author is with University of Hamburg, Germany; email: ronald.winnemoeller@uni–hamburg.de

 

Manuscript received February 2, 2009.
Manuscript accepted for publication March 17, 2009.

 

Abstract

In this paper, we propose semantic enterprise search as promising technical methodology for improving on accessibility to institutional knowledge. We briefly discuss the nature of knowledge and ignorance in respect to web–based information retrieval before introducing our particular view on semantic search as tight fusion of search engine and semantic web technologies, based on semantic annotations and the concept of intra–institutionwise distributed extensibility while still maintaining free keyword search functionality. Consequently , our architecture implementation makes strong use of the Aperture and Lucene software frameworks but introduces the novel concept of "RDF documents". Because our prototype system is not yet complete, we are not able to provide performance statistics but instead we present a concise example scenario.

Key words: RDF documents, semantic web, ignorance.

 

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