Work Plan in Detail - IKS

Main Innovations
In order to support the transition to a
truly knowledge based economy, we
must move our current support technology
from a content-based technology
to a semantics-capable technology,
and we must do so not just for the big
players, but we must convince European
SMEs that this is a worthwhile journey
to take. This is expressed in the mission
statement:
Interactive Knowledge creates a
technology platform for semantically
enabled content and knowledge
management, targeted at small to
medium CMS technology providers.
This overall mission entails a number of
necessary innovations which do not
seem to have been in the focus of research
on Intelligent Content and Semantics,
so far:
• There are very advanced technology
platforms such as semantic
web services and there are even
combinations of these advanced
service architectures with GRID
architectures, but there has not
been much research into what
stops current CMS technology
providers from buying into semantic
technologies. Interactive
Knowledge will provide a seman-
“A-B-C People”
Doug Engelbart's far-sighted vision about technologies
for knowledge workers that enable users
“downstream” to be more productive stands at the
beginning of this project.
tically enabled
layered CMS/
KMS architecture,
its specification
and a
reference implementation - the
Interactive Knowledge Stack.
• There has been excellent research
work into foundations of ontological
representations, and there
are large scale workbenches for
ontological engineering, but there
have not been many attempts to
make foundational ontologies usable
by commercial software developers
and there has been even
less research into developing user
interfaces which let end users interact
with knowledge structures
in an intuitive
fashion. InteractiveKnowledge
will provide
a layered,
semantically
enabled user interface framework
which can be customised by software
developers of CMS applications
so that end users can interact
with knowledge-rich content
in an intuitive way.
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What stops current CMS
technology providers from
buying into semantic
technologies?
How can end users interact
with knowledge-rich
content in an intuitive
way?