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Figure 13. Double clicking <strong>the</strong> Agent/Party comparator opens <strong>the</strong> semantic comparison<br />

window (bottom left), where <strong>the</strong> similarities and <strong>the</strong> differences between<br />

<strong>the</strong> Agent/Party sections <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> two models are described.<br />

viceEntity and BusinessEntity correspond to Role. Highlighting a concept in any<br />

window (e.g., Agent, as in Figure 13) will highlight it and its corresponding concepts<br />

(in this case, Party) in all windows where <strong>the</strong>se concepts appear.<br />

As shown in Figure 14, in <strong>the</strong> semantic comparison window, <strong>the</strong> similarities are<br />

represented as metadata on <strong>the</strong> dotted line between <strong>the</strong> corresponding concepts,<br />

while <strong>the</strong> differences are represented as metadata on <strong>the</strong> “unique” labels.<br />

Knowledge. Creation.on.<strong>the</strong>.................<br />

Human. <strong>Semantic</strong>.<strong>Web</strong><br />

The.SECI.Spiral.<strong>of</strong>.Knowledge.Creation<br />

In <strong>the</strong>ir award-winning 1995 book, The Knowledge Creating Company, Nonaka and<br />

Takeuchi introduce <strong>the</strong>ir <strong>the</strong>ory <strong>of</strong> organizational knowledge creation. According<br />

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