Semantic Web as an Enabling Technology for Better e-Services Addoption

E-services have significantly changed the way of doing business in recent years. We can, however, observe poor use of these services. There is a large gap between supply and actual eservices usage. This is why we started a project to provide an environment that will encourage the use of e-services. We believe that only providing e-service does not automatically mean consumers would use them. This paper shows the origins of our project and its current position. We discuss the decision of using semantic web technologies and their potential to improve e-services usage. We also present current knowledge base and its real-world classification. In the paper, we discuss further work to be done in the project. Current state of the project is promising.

Authors:

• Luka Pavlič
• Marjan Heričko

Keywords:

• E-Services
• E-Services Repository
• Ontologies
• Semantic Web

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