Application patterns

• It is fairly difficult to “categorize” applications (there are always overlaps)

• With this caveat, some of the application patterns:

• • data integration (ie, integrating data from major databases)
  • intelligent (specialized) portals (with improved local search based on vocabularies and ontologies)
  • content and knowledge organization
  • knowledge representation, decision support
  • X2X integration (often combined with Web Services)
  • data registries, repositories
  • collaboration tools (eg, social network applications)