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Interactive Knowledge Stack (IKS)

A Semantic-based Open Source Platform for Small to Medium CMS Providers

IKS will raise the semantic capability of European software houses to develop intelligent content management solutions for their customers.

What is IKS?

IKS is an integrating project targeted at the hundreds of SMEs in Europe, which are 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 affected by the quality of service provided through these platforms. The majority of these platforms lack the capability for making use of semantic web enabled, intelligent content, and therefore, lack the capacity for users to interact with the content at the user‘s knowledge level!

The major technological result of the project will be the 'Interactive Knowledge Stack', a layered set of software components and specifications which will make traditional content management platforms capable of dealing with the future 'Semantic Web'.

IKS will close the ...

engineering gapfor CMS architectures: the Interactive Knowledge Technology Stack will enable many open source CMS frameworks to become semantically enabled
research gapon user interaction with knowledge objects: the use of semantics to support direct user interaction with knowledge content will be a focus of Interactive Knowledge
research gapon empirical validation: we involve a group of six technology providers and further 50 smaller CMS/KMS providers for controlled engineering experiments to ensure 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 consortium, 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 bodies (W3C,OASIS, etc).

IKS invites all stakeholders to work towards bringing European CMS/KMS providers to the leading edge of innovation in knowledge technologies, for the benefit of all users.

IKS Approach

IKS has developed a working hypothesis which we call the Interactive Knowledge Stack. We are trying to start a dialogue in the developer community, about the need for a conceptual layering. As a start, we developed the following concepts, visualized in the diagrams.

IKS layers

Fig. 1: IKS layers: behavioural/interface, descriptional/middleware, distribution and storage/repository.

Fig. 2: Simplified view of the LAMP, Java and IKS Stacks put next to each other.

IKS does not say anything about implementation technology, but it tries to say something about translation from behavioural layers (at the level of interfaces) to descriptional layers (in the middle) and to distribution and data storage layers (at the level of repository backends).

More details

Flyer (1.72MB)
Annual Report 2010 (744KB)
Annual Report 2009 (973KB)
Project website

Events in connection with IKS:
IKS First Workshop to discuss semantic capabilities and requirements of content management systems (28-29 May 2009 in Salzburg, Austria).

Project coordinator: Wernher Behrendt, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H, Austria
Email to the IKS project manager
Participants: Salzburg Research, Austria (coordinator)
Deutsches Forschungsinstitut für Künstliche Intelligenz, Germany
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
Software Quality Lab, University of Paderborn, Germany
Software Research and Development and Consultancy Ltd, Turkey
Hochschule Furtwangen University (HFU), Germany
Nuxeo SAS, France
Alkacon Software GmbH, Germany
TXT Polymedia SPA, Italy
Pisano Holding GmbH, Germany
Nemein Oy, Finland
Day Software AG, Switzerland
Administrative details: IKS (ICT-231527) is an Integrated Project (IP) of the European Union's 7th Framework Programme: Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) – Call 3.
The project started on 1 January 2009, and will finish on 31 December 2012 (48 months).
There are 13 participants from 7 countries involved in the project, and the EC contribution is 6.57 million Euros (total cost: €8.55m).

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