Semantic Description of Documents in Enterprise Knowledge Infrastructures

Organizations have increasingly knowledge-intensive business processes that require a wealth of electronic resources which are scattered across a number of systems but are implicitly linked to each other. Meta-data annotations to these electronic resources can support users in retrieving related documents which is a key to provide advanced knowledge services in an enterprise knowledge infrastructure. The improved retrieval of documents ultimately aims at increasing productivity of knowledge work,. This paper discusses all necessary standards, languages and tools required to create, store and retrieve meta-data from the perspective of an enterprise knowledge infrastructure which should provide all means to do this within its integration layer.