We specify and justify, a proposed novel annotation scheme for describing real world situations. The motivation for the scheme is that content is about situations and therefore, the description of situations is crucial for finding any content relating to such situations. The idea is inspired by Richard S. Wurman's LATCH concept of organizing information. The scheme can be used to annotate travel offers, public events, activity streams, discussion threads etc.
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...
This year, IKS will go from requirements specification to design and prototypes of the interactive knowledge stack. There will be an "Alpha" version (available July - September 2010) which will mainly be validated by the industrial partners of the core consortium. (So the price for being a core industrial partner in IKS is that they will be the "guinea pigs" for our first attempts at enhancing CMS with semantic features!).
Thanks, once again, to all who attended IKS's Semantic Search workshop in Rome. Apologies that it has taken so long to get the content up online, we have been furiously editing video whilst trying to maintain other project commitments in the busy run-up to the holiday season.
