Improving content management - a semantic approach

Abstract

Public administration institutions - as well as citizens and businesses - have to meet challenges of the constantly changing business and legal environment. The complexity and quantity of information to be faced with by these actors is increasing at an alarming rate. Research and development projects must turn to the development of innovative, modern technologies which enable citizens and businesses to access, understand and apply complex information easily. Ontology-based content management systems can contribute to the improvement of quality and effectiveness of significant processes, requiring the application of complex information, within the public administration or in a corporation. Compared to traditional content management systems, these systems can support further functions, such as semantic enabled search, explication of relations between documents, drafting of new documents, and version management, as well. Ontologies, in addition to the definition of concepts, support the most detailed and complete exploration of semantic relations between the concepts of a given domain.