Abstract:

Knowledge management is a real important issue in economy because more than ever we need an efficient control of information on the market, of the way it is processed, interpreted and then used in day by day decisions. The present international economical situation generated by the well known crisis, indicate the lack of organization and control of knowledge in organizations. And if we think that the Internet, respectively that virtual identity that almost every physical organization have is the key that make the difference, then we can consider knowledge management in virtual organizations an important thematic to pay attention. The paper presents the characteristics and what we presume that knowledge management should accomplish in a virtual organization together with an architecture that implies the use of Semantic Web technologies.