KMDL-N3
The KMDL-N3 is a language designed to model interorganizational knowledgemanagement. It is a result of a PhD thesis on process oriented knowledge management and a branch of KMDL (Knowledge Modeling and Description Language). KMDL is developped by Gronau et al. and a graphical modeling language focussing on knowledge intensive business processes. Nevertheless KMDL-N3 is primarily a textual modeling language designed for backend analysing of knowledge flows. It is possible to translate graphical KMDL models into textual KMDL-N3 representations by simple rules. Models notated in KMDL-N3 can be processed by tools to deduce further facts and knowledge flows within and between organizations. Tooling as well as the language uses semantic web technologies. So KMDL-N3 can be integrated deeply into the semantic web infrastructure. The language of KMDL-N3 is formulated in N3 which is easier to read as RDF. The tooling (developped in Python) bases on the inference engine CWM developped by Tim Berners-Lee. The language of KMDL-N3 as well as its tooling will be described more detailly in the following paragraphs.