Ontologies for information organization in digital transformation processes
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Digital transformation. Ontologies. Digitalization. Organizations.Abstract
Nowadays, the application of digital technologies by contemporary
society and in organizations has become so frequent and expanded that it has
been characterized as a change process called digital transformation. The aim of
this paper is to discuss the concepts and processes of digital transformation to be
used as strategies in organizations, focusing on the use and application of
ontologies in this context and on the current challenges of its application. In this
research, ontologies are treated as instruments for knowledge representation and
organization in different domains, in the context of Information Science. It was
used an exploratory research methodology with a qualitative approach, through
which was carried out the study of the scientific literature, the selection of the
art state and the subjective analysis. The results indicated that ontologies allow
to represent information in the transition process between the project and the
product development, acting as the solution of semantic interoperability
problems. Ontologies are also useful in the process of constructing a company's
services cloud, by representing the basic concepts, terminology and semantics of
a service-oriented architecture. Finally, it was concluded that ontologies are
useful in the companies’ processes of digital transformation and product
development, because they make the acquired knowledge of a certain domain
explicit, allowing a clearer understanding of the integrated architectural
concepts and providing additional mechanisms for knowledge inference.
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