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An ontology-based collaborative inter-organisational knowledge management network (CIK-NET) Leung, N and Lau, S 2013, 'An ontology-based collaborative inter-organisational knowledge management network (CIK-NET)', Journal of Information and Knowledge Management, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 1-12. Document type: Journal Article Collection: Journal Articles Title An ontology-based collaborative inter-organisational knowledge management network (CIK-NET) Author(s) Leung, N Lau, S Year 2013 Journal name Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Volume number 12 Issue number 1 Start page 1 End page 12 Total pages 12 Publisher World Scientific Publishing Company Abstract Ontologies are widely used to represent knowledge explicitly but it is impractical to expect all individuals and organisations to agree on using one or a small subset of ontologies. The adoption of multiple ontologies causes ontology mismatches which make their inherent vocabularies and relationships become inconsistent, resulting in di±culty for one system to understand and reuse these ontologies. To achieve knowledge sharing and reuse, ontology mediation is required to reconcile mismatches between heterogeneous ontologies. In this paper, we investigate the application of ontology in knowledge management (KM). Many KM approaches have been developed with the purpose of managing organisational knowledge. However, these approaches only focus on managing intra-organisational knowledge, which is inadequate in current business environment because users are often required to access interorganisational knowledge to complete their tasks. These approaches also fail to collaborate with each other as their designs are based on their own business and KM requirement in managing organisational knowledge. We argue that ontology and its mediation methods can be used to overcome limitation of non-collaborative problem in which individual organisation is unable to reuse inter-organisational knowledge. An ontologybased inter-organisational KM network is therefore proposed to allow organisations accessing and retrieving inter-organisational knowledge of common domain. Subject Interorganisational Information Systems and Web Services Organisation of Information and Knowledge Resources Keyword(s) knowledge management ontology mediation integration merging mapping reuse ontology ontology matching. DOI - identifier 10.1142/S0219649213500056 Copyright notice © 2013 World Scientific Publishing Co. ISSN 0219-6492 Related Links Link Description http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0219649213500056 Link to Published Version   Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 23 Apr 2013, 14:37:44 EST Thu, 19 Jun 2014, 00:20:27 EST Filtered Full Altmetric details: Access Statistics: 138 Abstract Views  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 23 Apr 2013, 13:31:00 EST by Catalyst Administrator