Production and Innovation Knowledge Repository (D5.1 - BIVEE FP7 EU project)

In this document we address the problem of knowledge engineering and interoperability in virtual enterprise environments where knowledge is often fragmented and heterogeneous. We propose a knowledge repository called Production and Innovation Knowledge Repository (PIKR), and a set of semantic services, to enable an integrated and unifying view of the knowledge that flows with and across the two operational BIVEE spaces: the Virtual Production Space (VPS) and the Business Innovation Space (BIS). The PIKR is organized in accordance with a set of reference Ontologies to semantically describe enterprise knowledge resources, and semantics-based services for accessing and reasoning over such descriptions.