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Knowledge Integration is a key point in Knowledge Management and it can be viewed from two perspectives: integration of different knowledge bases or integration of different representations (ontologies) of the same knowledge at different formalisation levels. The use of WWW is considered to be an important factor for co-operative knowledge development provided that the WWW can be said to be the most important knowledge source in the world, while its underlying technology allows for the co-operation in the context of ontology construction processes. In addition to this, while a (global) ontology can be centralised, its instances may be distributed over the WWW. This article introduces a cooperative philosophy-based framework that allows for these processes.
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Fernández-Breis, J.T., Martínez-Béjar, R. (2001). A Web-based Framework for Integrating Knowledge. In: Roy, R. (eds) Industrial Knowledge Management. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0351-6_8
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