The purpose of this study is to highlight the opportunity offered by Semantic Web technologies in knowledge representation and automatic processing of economic virtual organizations. We refer to Semantic Web as the technology to create metadata for e-business applications. Especially knowing that the information and understanding it - therefore knowledge, is the key to fulfilling any vision; how to make computers “understand” information is the problem discussed in this study having as practical implementation the representation of specific metadata for e-commerce activity.
Keywords: semantic web, virtual organizations, SKOS, e-commerce