A Software Platform for Semantics-based Enterprise Knowledge Management

In this paper we address the problem of knowledge management and interoperability in virtual enterprise environments where knowledge is often fragmented and heterogeneous. We propose a knowledge repository and man-agement infrastructure, called Production and Innovation Knowledge Reposi-tory (PIKR), to support open innovation in virtual enterprises. The PIKR pro-vides a set of reference ontologies to semantically describe enterprise knowl-edge resources, and semantics-based services for accessing and reasoning over such descriptions. We also give an overview of the implementation of the PIKR that is being carried on in the BIVEE European project.