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Organize
& Manage a Standard Shared Information Space across Business
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Content
& Commerce Applications
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Create
a Common Representation for Business Products & Services
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Reusable
Shared Description
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Scalable,
Extensible, Maintainable Consistent Semantics
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Common
Representation will Support:
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Categorization
of Products & Services from both Buyer & Seller
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Perspectives:
Buyers’ Guides, Sellers’ Catalogs, Buyer’s Navigation &
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Search
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Parametric
Search: identification and definition of properties & attributes
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of
Products & Services for search
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“Domain”
Representation beyond Databases Enables:
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“Intelligent”
Search: rich search based on interrelationships and meaning,
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not
just keyword occurrence in product spec sheets and descriptions
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Intelligent
Assistance to Buyers & Sellers: related products, cross-selling,
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context-based
classification/search/navigation/transactions
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