Business Register Interoperability throughout Europe: The BRITE Project

In this paper, we will introduce BRITE, an Integrated Project sponsored by the European Union starting in 2006. The aim of BRITE is to exploit Semantic Web technologies in order to enable interoperation in a transnational scenario, namely processes between institutions that concert the registration of businesses in the European Union. While technically the scope of work of BRITE comprises research in process and knowledge modeling, novel ICT engineering/prototyping, design and piloting of intelligent new cross-border and cross-domain services, in this paper we will–according to the early state of the project– mainly concentrate on the BRITE scenario and the service cases envisioned.