.... Felix Boteram can be contacted at: felix.boteram@fh‐koeln.de © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Open systems Semantics Information retrieval Knowledge management Inventory management In a world where the sheer abundance of information and the heterogeneity of the systems...

... the equivalence between two or more concepts (Chan and Zeng, 2004). A number of relevant factors challenging semantic mapping work needed to be considered before conducting the mapping work. These include: Semantics Open systems Knowledge management Portals It was difficult to find an existing...

... management Open systems E‐learning is an ill‐defined concept, subject to wide variation in practice, but which nevertheless has become an established component of education delivery worldwide. At one extreme it implies the use of the web technology to facilitate the whole cycle of learning from...

... 2003 Information retrieval Open systems Software engineering Worldwide web It is argued here that open source software development is a promising method for producing information retrieval (IR) systems. Open source software is available freely (usually on the Web), and the source...

... to information: is it possible for developing countries? IFLA Journal, 25(2),1999,104^107. Aslib Proceedings Vol 53, No. 5, May 2001 ^ 178 © MCB UP Limited 2001 Information systems Open systems Libraries ...