Colomo Palacios, RicardoGómez Berbís, Juan MiguelGarcía Crespo, ÁngelMencke, Myriam2012-06-272012-06-272009-09-16Miltiadis D. Lytras et al. (eds.), Visioning and engineering the knowledge society: a web science perspective. Second World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2009, Chania, Crete, Greece, September 16-18, 2009 (pp. 137-146). Proceedings. Berlin: Springer, 20093-642-04753-X978-3-642-04753-40302-9743 (Print)1611-3349 (Online)https://hdl.handle.net/10016/14719Proceedings of: Second World Summit on the Knowledge Society (WSKS 2009), Chania, Crete, Greece, September 16-18, 2009.The importance of the human factor in 21st century organizations means that the competent development of professionals has become a key aspect. In this environment, mentoring has emerged as a common and efficient practice for the development of knowledge workers. Following the surge of concepts such as eMentoring, advancements of the Internet and its evolution towards a Semantic Web, such developments present novel opportunities for the improvement of the different characteristics of mentoring. Basing itself on such advancements, this paper presents SeMatching, a semantics-based platform which utilizes different personal and professional information to carry out pair matching of mentors and mentees.application/pdfeng© SpringerSemantic WebSocial softwareMentoringe-MentoringPair matchingconference paperInformática10.1007/978-3-642-04754-1_15open access137146Visioning and engineering the knowledge society: a web science perspective. Second World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2009, Chania, Crete, Greece, September 16-18, 2009