This project prepares and starts the commercial exploitation of the semantic collaboration software OntoWiki in the three different target markets Enterprise Knowledge Management, semantically enhanced content management for E-Learning and E-Tourism. OntoWiki is a comprehensive semantic collaboration platform. OntoWiki is open-source software and a Web application, which can be installed at any Web space and accessed by an ordinary Web browser. Onto Wiki facilitates the visual presentation of a knowledge base as an information map, with different views on instance data. It enables intuitive authoring of semantic content, with an inline editing mode for editing semantic content, similar to WYSIWIG for text documents. OntoWiki is developed at Universität Leipzig and has a large and active user base. Within the course of the project OntoWiki will be further developed and adopted to the needs of the SME participants for exploitation of OntoWiki in the prospective target markets.
Description of Work.
WP1: Requirements, Validation, Assessment
Objectives of this work package are:
to describe use cases and to collect user requirements from the application areas by consulting the end user groups and other technology users and to identify technical constraints as well as standards to be adopted,
to validate the implementation of the requirements continuously throughout the project and
to finally assess the overall project progress.
WP2: Knowledge store distribution and federation
Objectives of this work package are:
investigating and implementing methods for integrated vocabulary support, scalable reasoning, distributed querying and knowledge store federation;
producing robust open-source implementations (exemplary on the basis of Virtuoso) for the use with social semantic collaboration systems in general and Onto Wiki in particular;
extending Open Link’s knowledge store Virtuoso with functionality which is crucial in inter-linked, distributed, semantic-rich collaboration scenarios.
WP3: Social semantic collaboration: structuring, enrichment & provenance
Objectives of this work package are:
developing a methodology for adaptive semantic collaboration;
supporting effective means of .browsing (possibly large) knowledge bases;
establishing provenance support as needed in collaboration scenarios with many participants.
WP4: Market Adoption: Enterprise knowledge spaces
Objectives of this work package are:
to adopt Onto Wiki for Enterprise Knowledge Management by developing customized conceptual structures for common Enterprise Knowledge,
to integrate Onto Wiki with the products of Open Link and BI and
to develop a viable business model for continued Onto Wiki development, consulting, training and commercial support in this application domain.
WP5: Market Adoption: E-Learning
Objectives of this work package are:
enable the semantic annotation of E-Learning content objects
to provide means for developing learning objects based on semantic structures, such as semantic networks, taxonomies or ontologies.
to enable support for creating and maintaining such semantically transparent learning objects in existing LCMSs.
WP6: Market Adoption: E-Tourism
Objectives of this work package are:
to create an architecture of participation for tourism related content, where all stakeholders can contribute structured content,
to minimize the required effort for contributing content (in order to facilitate contributions) and
to enable representation, search and browsing of geo annotated content.
WP7: Dissemination, Exploitation, Awareness & Training
Objectives of this work package are: preparing/testing markets and informing potential customers as well as raising the technological lead of the involved SMEs by coaching and training of personnel. The tasks of this work package are aimed at coordinating, interlinking and fostering these activities for maximum effectiveness.
WP8 Project Management
Objectives of this work package includes all coordination activities and tasks, which are not directly related to RTD actions.
Deliverables and Login
[via ontowiki]
Semantic Collaboration for Enterprise KM : e-Learning and e-Tourism
This project prepares and starts the commercial exploitation of the semantic collaboration software OntoWiki in the three different target markets Enterprise Knowledge Management, semantically enhanced content management for E-Learning and E-Tourism. OntoWiki is a comprehensive semantic collaboration platform. OntoWiki is open-source software and a Web application, which can be installed at any Web space and accessed by an ordinary Web browser. Onto Wiki facilitates the visual presentation of a knowledge base as an information map, with different views on instance data. It enables intuitive authoring of semantic content, with an inline editing mode for editing semantic content, similar to WYSIWIG for text documents. OntoWiki is developed at Universität Leipzig and has a large and active user base. Within the course of the project OntoWiki will be further developed and adopted to the needs of the SME participants for exploitation of OntoWiki in the prospective target markets.
Description of Work.
WP1: Requirements, Validation, Assessment
Objectives of this work package are:
to describe use cases and to collect user requirements from the application areas by consulting the end user groups and other technology users and to identify technical constraints as well as standards to be adopted,
to validate the implementation of the requirements continuously throughout the project and
to finally assess the overall project progress.
WP2: Knowledge store distribution and federation
Objectives of this work package are:
investigating and implementing methods for integrated vocabulary support, scalable reasoning, distributed querying and knowledge store federation;
producing robust open-source implementations (exemplary on the basis of Virtuoso) for the use with social semantic collaboration systems in general and Onto Wiki in particular;
extending Open Link’s knowledge store Virtuoso with functionality which is crucial in inter-linked, distributed, semantic-rich collaboration scenarios.
WP3: Social semantic collaboration: structuring, enrichment & provenance
Objectives of this work package are:
developing a methodology for adaptive semantic collaboration;
supporting effective means of .browsing (possibly large) knowledge bases;
establishing provenance support as needed in collaboration scenarios with many participants.
WP4: Market Adoption: Enterprise knowledge spaces
Objectives of this work package are:
to adopt Onto Wiki for Enterprise Knowledge Management by developing customized conceptual structures for common Enterprise Knowledge,
to integrate Onto Wiki with the products of Open Link and BI and
to develop a viable business model for continued Onto Wiki development, consulting, training and commercial support in this application domain.
WP5: Market Adoption: E-Learning
Objectives of this work package are:
enable the semantic annotation of E-Learning content objects
to provide means for developing learning objects based on semantic structures, such as semantic networks, taxonomies or ontologies.
to enable support for creating and maintaining such semantically transparent learning objects in existing LCMSs.
WP6: Market Adoption: E-Tourism
Objectives of this work package are:
to create an architecture of participation for tourism related content, where all stakeholders can contribute structured content,
to minimize the required effort for contributing content (in order to facilitate contributions) and
to enable representation, search and browsing of geo annotated content.
WP7: Dissemination, Exploitation, Awareness & Training
Objectives of this work package are: preparing/testing markets and informing potential customers as well as raising the technological lead of the involved SMEs by coaching and training of personnel. The tasks of this work package are aimed at coordinating, interlinking and fostering these activities for maximum effectiveness.
WP8 Project Management
Objectives of this work package includes all coordination activities and tasks, which are not directly related to RTD actions.
Deliverables and Login
[via ontowiki]