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...