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A major bottleneck in business applications of Semantic Web technology is the lack of industry-strength ontologies that go beyond academic prototypes. The design of such ontologies from scratch in a textbook-style ontology engineering process is in many cases unattractive, for it would require significant effort and because the resulting ontologies could not build on top of existing community commitment. Also, real-world problems of data and systems interoperability can only be overcome using Semantic Web technology if ontologies exist that represent the very standards currently in use in systems and databases.
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Hepp, M., Lytras, M., Benjamins, V.R. (2006). Preface for OIS 2006. In: Roddick, J.F., et al. Advances in Conceptual Modeling - Theory and Practice. ER 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4231. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11908883_32
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