Documentation
IKS will publish milestone achievements (reports, specifications and software components) publicly, in accordance with the workplan. All public documents can be downloaded via the links below or from the IKS Scribd service or IKS Google Docs Public Deliverables.
List of Technical Documents and Reports
Benchmarking industrial semantic software capabilities
Report on the design of semantic benchmarking experiment - defines metrics and an experiment for CMS to test their semantic abilities together based on business and software engineering requirements.
Access and download PDF version at PDF 1.5 MB, High res version PDF 7.5 MB, or on Google Docs
Requirements capture through use cases
Report on requirements of horizontal functionalities describes requirements for domain independent features of semantic based content management systems.
Access and download PDF version at: sites/www.iks-project.eu/files/iks-d22-requirements-horizontal-case-20100304.pdf (6 MB) or on Google Docs
The IKS Thesis and Approach in a Nutshell
This document takes a closer look at the vision, goals and implementation plan of the IKS project. The document is structured according to the sections: Executive Summary - Interactive Knowledge (IKS) is an integrating project whose target are the hundreds of SMEs in Europe providing technology platforms for content and knowledge management to thousands of end user organisations...Main Innovations - In order to support the transition to a truly knowledge based economy, we must move our current support technology from a content-based technology to a semantics-capable technology...Success Indicators - 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 providers. Raising the value of interactive knowledge in the perception of the user...Implementation Plan - Interactive Knowledge has a duration of 48 months; and a budget of 8,5 M€ with 5,6 M€ requested funding. The project is organised in 10 Work Packages and uses an effort of 750 person months. It expects to leverage another 200 person-months in open source development...
The IKS Thesis and Approach Report
IKS Annual Report 2009
This document provides a concise overview of the work completed in the first year of the project 2009 and wrap-ups with a look at the main areas of work in 2010.
IKS Annual Report 2009 (LowRes)
Community Activation
Several reports on the communication of the IKS project (ongoing-yearly) - we will report all activities of the IKS project regarding networking with open source developers and early adopters from CMS suppliers as well as our contributions to standards bodies: workshops, programming camps, specifications.
Requirements Gathering Workshop (May 2009) Access and download PDF version at: sites/www.iks-project.eu/files/iks_d821_community_workshop_report_20090710.pdf or on Google Docs
Semantic Search Workshop (November 2009). Access and download PDF version at: sites/www.iks-project.eu/files/iks_d822_community_workshop_report_20100214_0.pdf or on Google Docs.
Annual Report on Standards Contribution
The objective of this report is to provide an update on the status of IKS activities and initiatives aimed at supporting the liaisons of the IKS project with W3C and other standards bodies.
2009 Annual Report on Standards Contribution. Access and download PDF version at: sites/www.iks-project.eu/files/iks_d831_annual_report_on_standards_20100217.pdf or on Google Docs.
2009 Annual Report on Standards Activities in IKS
Research into requirements of the Interactive Knowledge Stack
- Report on the model of knowledge based interactions (March 2010) - will investigate conceptual models of interaction-patterns as wel as existing and requirements for future libraries of concrete interaction-patterns.
- Report on ontological requirements for industrial CMS applications (June 2010) - we will research into the requirements of making foundational ontologies and ontological design patterns usable for content management systems.
Design and Implementation of the use cases
- Software prototype for intelligent project controlling (December 2010) - will demonstrate how semantic content management technologies will help in a knowledge-rich and complex environment.
- Software prototype for an Ambient Intelligence use case (June 2011) - will demonstrate embedded interactive knowledge management in our "bathroom" environment.
Design and Implementation of the Interactive Knowledge Stack
- A series of specifications and software components forming the Interactive Knowledge Stack (December 2011 'Final Release') - will hold the main specifications and software components for 'presentation and interaction', 'ontology and business logic', semantic lifting of unstructured content' as well as 'reasoning and data persistence'. (Note: Intermediate versions will be available from June 2010 onwards for discussing with the relevant developer communities)
Validation of the Stack
- A series of reports on validation of different versions of the stack (December 2011 - December 2012) - will contain validation results from external early adopters, which use the stack components to build CMS; assessments of the semantic capabilities of the stack itself up to a study of end user perception of interactive-stack driven systems.
Methodology
- Book on semantic technologies in CMS (December 2010) - is intended to be a survey of semantic capabilities of current content management frameworks.
- Training and teaching materials for academic and industrial use (December 2011) - a set of prototypical curriculum and teaching materials for engineering issues at academically level and for industrial environments.
- Handbook on developing CMS applications (December 2012) - is the final official book on how to develop semantic CMS and how to make CMS frameworks semantically powerful.
Industrial Application building and Demo
- Several showcase demos of interactive knowledge driven applications (June 2012) - will demonstrate a variety of use cases for interactive knowledge - from intelligent project controlling, various 'external' applications and IKS support demos for best practices in horizontal and vertical application building.