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The article presents the introductory matter for the journal "Towards the Semantic Web." The matter includes contents, foreword, biographies, and list of contributors. Some of the contributors are: Ian Horrocks, Dieter Fensel, Michael Erdmann, Victor losif, Robert Engels, Till Christopher Lech, Rikard Larsson, Jeen Broekstra, Arjohn Kampman, and Christiaan Fluit. This journal sets out new approaches to the development and deployment of knowledge on the Internet, and sets a precedent for high quality research in this exciting new area. This collection thus portrays state-of-the-art work demonstrating the power of new approaches to online knowledge management.

Developing ontologies is central to the vision of Semantic Web-based knowledge management. The methodology described guides the development of ontologies for different applications. However, because of the size of ontologies, their complexity, their formal underpinnings and the necessity to come towards a shared understanding within a group of people when defining an ontology, ontology construction is still far from being a well-understood process. In recent years, research has aimed at paving the way for the construction of ontologies by ontology development environments.