Description of Work

Structure and Dependencies of the Work Packages

Description of the Packages

WP1: Requirements, Validation, Assessment

Objectives of this work package are:

1. to describe use cases and to collect user requirements from the application areas by consulting the end user groups and other technology users and to identify technical constraints as well as standards to be adopted,
2. to validate the implementation of the requirements continuously throughout the project and 
3. to finally assess the overall project progress.

WP2: Knowledge store distribution and federation

Objectives of this work package are:

1. investigating and implementing methods for integrated vocabulary support, scalable reasoning, distributed querying and knowledge store federation;
2. producing robust open-source implementations (exemplary on the basis of Virtuoso) for the use with social semantic collaboration systems in general and Onto Wiki in particular;
3. extending Open Link’s knowledge store Virtuoso with functionality which is crucial in inter-linked, distributed, semantic-rich collaboration scenarios.

WP3: Social semantic collaboration: structuring, enrichment & provenance

Objectives of this work package are:

1. developing a methodology for adaptive semantic collaboration;
2. supporting effective means of .browsing (possibly large) knowledge bases;
3. establishing provenance support as needed in collaboration scenarios with many participants.

WP4: Market Adoption: Enterprise knowledge spaces

Objectives of this work package are:

1. to adopt Onto Wiki for Enterprise Knowledge Management by developing customized conceptual structures for common Enterprise Knowledge,
2. to integrate Onto Wiki with the products of Open Link and BI and
3. to develop a viable business model for continued Onto Wiki development, consulting, training and commercial support in this application domain.

WP5: Market Adoption: E-Learning

Objectives of this work package are:

1. enable the semantic annotation of E-Learning content objects
2. to provide means for developing learning objects based on semantic structures, such as semantic networks, taxonomies or ontologies.
3. to enable support for creating and maintaining such semantically transparent learning objects in existing LCMSs.

WP6: Market Adoption: E-Tourism

Objectives of this work package are:

1. to create an architecture of participation for tourism related content, where all stakeholders can contribute structured content,
2. to minimize the required effort for contributing content (in order to facilitate contributions) and 
3. to enable representation, search and browsing of geo annotated content.

WP7: Dissemination, Exploitation, Awareness & Training

Objectives of this work package are: preparing/testing markets and informing potential customers as well as raising the technological lead of the involved SMEs by coaching and training of personnel. The tasks of this work package are aimed at coordinating, interlinking and fostering these activities for maximum effectiveness.

WP8 Project Management

Objectives of this work package includes all coordination activities and tasks, which are not directly related to RTD actions.