IKS 2009 Highlights
The first year in IKS (2009) was devoted to community building and understanding requirements in the CMS sector, progress was made in six areas:
- Two successful community workshops
- Seven benchmark exercises for CMS providers
- Open Source RTD in Semantic Search accessible on Google Code
- Over 200 high-level application independent requirements for semantic CMS
- A use case description for semantic CMS in ERP and Project Controlling
- A use case description for equipping the “Ambient Bathroom” with semantic CMS
Brief update and State of Play
Year one (2009) was dedicated to building a community of external interested parties (CMS technology providers) and to understanding the requirements of CMS in general and of semantic extensions for CMS in particular.
We had over 20 external individuals from different CMS vendors at our first workshop in Salzburg and collected more than 100 high level requirements for semantic CMS. Most delegates viewed “Semantic Search” as a theme with high potential impact and we decided to devote the second workshop in Rome – again attracting over 20 externals – to semantic search. We would like to thank Stephane Crosier from Jahia for moderating a competition amongst the semantic search demos, which was judged by the attendees of the workshop and which was won by Zemanta.
On the research side, we published a document on Semantic Benchmarking for the CMS Industry and our industrial partners are currently working on demos which show to what extent they are currently capable of answering the semantic benchmark questions we have posed. On the basis of this we will do an evaluation of the semantic capabilities of current CMS, and we will use our findings to guide the development of semantic enhancements for these systems. A more comprehensive list of requirements is also being compiled in the form of a wiki which will be made publicly available.
In year two, software design and development will start on the reference implementation of IKS - the Interactive Knowledge Stack. Two more open workshops are planned and will be co-located with major events. At least one will be co-located with an industrial conference or fair because IKS is committed to industrial acceptance and impact.