Knowledge Patterns within the Conception of Semantic Web

Abstract

The article tries to contribute to answer a question if the general concept of knowledge pattern with its sub-concepts covers a great majority of the approaches used under this term in computer science literature. At one case, specialized software design patterns in the frame of object-oriented methodology become a very well used tool for software praxis; at a different case, there exists a large packet of tools for creating ontologies of various areas. As a third case, also RDF-based networks of linked data could be seen as knowledge patterns characterizing at least structures or defined activities of some social, working, or other organizations. We propose here to see the problem of knowledge pattern from knowledge representation especially at directions where the goal of using knowledge pattern meets the general goal of the semantic web. The motivation of this article is to apply knowledge patterns in the semantic web because knowledge at a higher professional level can and should usually be given in such a way that their specialized formal expertise incorporates the key to understanding their meaning.