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Main Innovations
Success Indicators
Implementation Plan

JoinIKS, an open source project to
bring semantic technologies to
CMS platforms

In order to support the tran-
sition to a truly knowledge
based economy, we must
move our current support
technology from a content-
based technology to a
semantics-capable
technology...

We describe the following
five critical success factors
and give success and failure
conditions: IKS Technology
Stack, Interaction with
knowledge at the user level.
Raising the technological
capabilities of CMS provid-
ers. Raising the value of
interactive knowledge in the
perception of the user...

Interactive Knowledge has a
duration of 48 months; and a
budget of 8,5 M€ with 5,6 M€
requested funding. The pro-
ject is organised in 10 Work
Packages and uses an efort
of 750 person months. It
expects to leverage another
200 person-months in
open source development...

Interactive Knowledge (IKS) is
an integrating project whose
target are the hundreds of
SMEs in Europe providing
technology platforms for
content and knowledge man-
agement to thousands of end
user organisations...

Interactive Knowledge (IKS) is an integrating project whose tar-
get are the hundreds of SMEs in Europe providing technology
platforms for content and knowledge management to thousands
of end user organisations.

Downstream, hundred-thousands of corporate end users and
millions of content consumers are afected by the quality of
service provided through these platforms. The majority of these
platforms is built under the "Linux/Apache/mySQL/php" para-
digm known as the LAMP stack. More advanced CMS platforms
are provided by firms with a software engineering background
using frameworks such as .NET and JEE5. All of these frame-
works lack the capability for semantic web enabled, intelligent content, and therefore lack the capacity
for users to interact with the content at the user's knowledge level

and further 50 smaller CMS/KMS providers for controlled engineering experiments to en-
sure quantitative analysis of requirements and of subsequent technology validation for
semantically enabled, interactive knowledge and content management systems.

... impact gap for industrial take-up: starting with six industrial partners in the consor- tium, we will recruit 50 more European CMS/KMS providers and activate a dozen relevant open source communities to embrace IKS specifications, and be present in standards bod- ies (W3C,OASIS, etc).

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There are several hundred CMS and KMS provider SMEs in Europe, and most of them are currently not
able to leverage semantics-based technology for use in their systems. This has negative impact
downstream, on thousands of end user organisations which are served by these providers, and ulti-
mately, tens or hundreds of thousands of knowledge workers in the downstream organisations are
prevented from leveraging their skills. The poor technology base of CMS/KMS providers is a major in-
hibitor of progress and innovation, world-wide.

Interactive Knowledge is an integrating project with impact on content and knowledge management technology providers in Europe. In the area of intelligent content we identified four fundamental gaps that so far, appear to have been neglected by stakeholders and which lie at the heart of the above productivity problem:

•the engineering gap w.r.t. architectures: Semantic Web research has been moving into academic speciali-
sation and the research community has been neglecting that industry needs coherent architectures to fit
into existing technology landscapes, and that it needs development and migration paths from "traditional"
to semantics-enabled technologies - Interactive Knowledge addresses this problem by its "Semantic CMS
Technology Stack", which will demonstrate migration paths from the current "Linux/Apache/mySQL/php"
paradigm (known as the LAMP stack) to a framework which is compatible with developments in the seman-
tic web research communities. There are significant research challenges in understanding "The Stack" and
its layers.

•the research gap w.r.t. user interaction with knowledge objects: Semantic Web research has several im- portant strands of investigation: ontology languages such as OWL; the representation of processes; the use of rules in ontologies; semantic web services; reasoning engines; large-scale knowledge bases, and ad- vanced query languages such as SPARQL. Recently, a lot of interest has shifted to social computing and semantic technologies. What remains poorly understood, however, is the adequate representation of se- mantics in the user interface, so that the user can interact with the "knowledge" directly! This is where In- teractive Knowledge is addressing a major gap which requires also a thorough understanding of the ex- isting work in semantic technologies.

•the research gap w.r.t. to empirical validation: Interactive Knowledge involves a core group of six tech-
nology providers and an extended group of up to 50 smaller CMS/KMS providers and engages them in
controlled engineering experiments to understand which semantics-based approaches will work and what
will not work, and on what time-scales. This way, we ensure valid substantiations of our claims.

•the impact gap w.r.t. industrial take-up: Knowledge technologies have simply not arrived yet, in main-
stream content and knowledge management - Many European technology providers are SMEs and even the
advanced media management providers have not yet, even understood the potential of relatively simple
semantic web technology, such as the use of RDF! Interactive Knowledge will involve up to 50 European
CMS and KMS providers bringing knowledge technologies to them. It will activate a dozen open source
communities which have stakes in related fields such as intelligent lay-outing and semantics-enabled stor-
age solutions for content. Interactive Knowledge will also be present in standards bodies such as W3C and
OASIS to ensure a balance between industrial efectiveness and conceptual soundness of CMS and KMS re-
lated standardisation.