Chapter XV proposes an ontology using OWL for the Australian timber sector that
can be used in conjunction with Semantic Web services to provide effective and
cheap business-to-business (B2B) communications.
From the perspective of the timber industry sector, this study is important because
supply chain efficiency is a key component in an organization??™s strategy to gain
a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Strong improvement in supply chain
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performance is possible with improved B2B communication which is used both for
building trust and providing real time marketing data.
Traditional methods such as electronic data interchange (EDI) used to facilitate
B2B communication have a number of disadvantages, such as high implementation
and running costs and a rigid and inflexible messaging standard. Information and
communications technologies (ICT) have supported the emergence of Web-based
EDI which maintains the advantages of the traditional paradigm while negating
the disadvantages. This has been further extended by the advent of the Semantic
Web which rests on the fundamental idea that Web resources should be annotated
with semantic markup that captures information about their meaning and facilitates
meaningful machine-to-machine communication.
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