Challenge
What is the state of play?
"There are several hundred CMS and KMS provider for SMEs in Europe. 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. Ultimately, tens or hundreds of thousands of knowledge workers in the downstream organisations are prevented from leveraging their skills"
Is the LAMP Stack the best we can do?
The technology base of many CMS/KMS providers is the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, mySQL, php). The LAMP stack is not well suited to using semantic web technologies such as RDF or OWL. The technologies of the Semantic Web are neither well suited nor very mature with respect to building operational, advanced content management systems.
The IKS Starting Proposition
We accept that LAMP is enough to build operational CMS - now let us build bridges between LAMP-based CMS and semantic web. We accept that Java-based CMS can make use of many practical functionalities of the Java-Framework - now let us build the same kind of bridges between Java-based CMS and the semantic web. We (must) accept that Semantic Web technologies are immature with respect to wide-spread use for content management - now let us work on ways in which semantic technologies can mature enough to substitute (and outperform) some of the traditional technologies currently used either in LAMP or in Java-based CMS.