Semantic UBL-like documents for innovation

Considering innovation as the result of only spontaneous activities is a simplistic vision, because working out inspiration and reaching up to innovation need awareness and knowledge about the application domain and its problems. In this paper, we address the issue of knowledge representation, access and sharing in an enterprise context, by proposing an ontology-based framework (DocOnto) for the semantic description of documents involved in innovation activities. The framework, which is built within the BIVEE European project, is characterized by a customizable approach inspired by the UBL/CCTS, which allows each enterprise to refine the DocOnto at best for its needs. Then UBL-like structures are semantically lifted and used for describing concrete documents. Such a semantic representation enables reasoning services like querying and retrieving of documents, understanding similarities among documents, assessing their status and quality, monitoring innovation activities. The framework is supported by the technological integration of the iSurf eDoCreator, for modelling UBL-like documents structures, and the Production and Innovation Knowledge Repository (PIKR), the semantic knowledge hub of the BIVEE platform.