Need your support and experiences for orientation and overview

Hello,

:: Yes, there are always ways around the problem. However, it is very hard
:: to find such a problem, especially if the ontology gets big or you're
:: reusing someone else's ontology (and that is what the Semantic Web is
:: all about; reuse).

apropos "Re-use": I know that there is an archive of all posted mails of
this mailinglist on the W3C-list-site and I already searched there, but at
the moment I do actually feel completely information and knowledge
'overloaded'.

Propose that I'm a beginner in that whole domain: could you recommend me
useful links and comments in german or english towards

- examples of ontologies of special domains

- sites or portals for beginners/advanced and experts about semantic web,
information modelling, knowledge modelling (and in that context certainly
also ontologies)

- examples of ontology-driven processing on documents

- practice examples or research topics dealing with implementation of
semantic web and/or ontologies in order to process business processes
(e.g. documentation process)

- mailinglists, forums or newsletters, that help further on

- still existing problems and challenges in that field?

Or shortly expressed: I would like to get a good overview of the state of
the art and the history (sounds like centuries:-)) in order to feel having
a starting point for my PhD thesis. I searched already a lot in internet,
but still miss THE site that contains more than only one or two
easy-formulated and easy-understandable sentences about the 'semantic web'
and at this moment I feel also a bit frustrated, because I see, that the
terminology in that field is not really well-used by most authors of
papers and articles. In the one paper ontology means topic map, in the
other ontology seems to mean something completely others.

And I have another question: I'm member in other mailingslists and in some
of them there is a quite good thing, that if someone posts a question, he
or she has to give after a certain time a summary of the given answers and
followed discussions. It makes it much more easier and faster for all, as
one knows, that a summary will follow up. What dou you think about to
introduce that way also here in this mailingslist?

Looking forward for your comments,
Tanja

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