Abstract
The Semantic Web technology has acquired attentions as a platform for knowledge management recently. We apply the Semantic Web to knowledge management of ship basic design, where variety of design knowledge is needed to be processed. Firstly, authors conduct domain analysis to basic design for clarifying a sequence of tasks and design knowledge that is referred in each task. Secondly, ontologies, part of Semantic Web technologies, are build along with the analysis and written in RDFS and DAML+OIL. By using the proposing system, the relevant design knowledge.
