Impressions and results from the first IKS workshop
The IKS project has adopted an open communication and development policy to guarantee innovative and relevant results. To support this, IKS will host workshops every six months to consult with CMS vendors, developers and end-users. The workshop themes will concur with the development phases of the project.
The first IKS workshop took place in Salzburg, Austria on 28-29 May 2009. It provided an open forum for a diverse group of CMS vendors and developers to have their say on semantic requirements for the Interactive Knowledge Stack.
‘Semantics’ IS on the CMS radar
Despite the limited visibility of IKS, (project launched January 2009) interest in the workshop was strong across the board of CMS communities, with experts from as far as India and the USA expressing interest to attend. This justified not only the timely relevance of IKS given the current discussions on Semantic Web and Web 3.0, but also how receptive the CMS communities are to the topic semantic information technologies and services.
In the end we were able to welcome 21 guests such as Johan Janssens (Joomlatools), Mats Hellström, (EPiServer), Raphael Ritz (INCF, Plone), Stephane Croisier (Jahia), John Norman (CARET, University of Cambridge) and Stephane Corlosquet (Deri Galway, Drupal RDFa) to join the IKS team, to 'shake' the Interactive Knowledge Stack.
Workshop Impressions
Workshop Results100 issues identifiedTo kick-off the brainstorming session Wernher Behrendt presented the Interactive Knowledge Stack and left the audience with the following questions to tackle:
In the intensive brainstorming session close to 100 themes, issues, and ideas were raised. The input was mapped to the four general layers of the IKS stack: Interaction, Models, Lifting, and Storage. The full list of input is at the bottom of this page. The filtering of the themes was performed using the Dotmocracy approach. Each participant had 4 dots (votes) to pin alongside their theme of interest. After lunch, the list was then narrowed down to 4 topics following an open discussion on each themes importance and applicability to IKS. 4 topics to begin working on:
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Quotes from the workshop"At some point, to stay viable, content management systems require a quantum evolution that takes them beyond technology and features and on to the satisfaction of a user experience"
"knowledge will be content in ten years"
"semantics out of the box"
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Interviews with the IKS workshop guests
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Stéphane Croisier |
Reto Bachmann-Gmuer Trialox AG |
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Johan Janssens Managing director and lead architect, Joomlatools |
John Norman Director, Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies, University of Cambridge |
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Raphael Ritz Scientific Officer, International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility |
Stephane Corlosquet Deri Galway |
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Laurin Herlt Chief technology officer
Gentics Software GmbH
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Jens W. Klein
Klein & Partner KEG, BlueDynamics Alliance
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Shubham Nagar CEO InfoAxon Technologies |
Tobias Hauser Founder and Managing director Arrabiata Solutions GmbH |
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Paul Geraghty Independent php programmer
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Mats Hellström Head of Pre-sales EPiServer |
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Igor Novakovic Deputy director of development Empolis |
Justin Cormack Head of Technology, Squiz UK |
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Arne Blankerts Lead developer, fCMS |
Steven Noels CEO and Managing partner Outerthought |
Input from the brainstorming session
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Issues/themes for the IKS Storage layer
Issues/themes for the IKS Models layer:
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