Interactive Knowledge (IKS)
Interactive Knowledge Stack for small to medium CMS/KMS providers
Collaborative Large-scale Integrating Project
EU-IST Seventh Framework Programme- ICT-2007-4.4 "Intelligent Content and Semantics"
Project Runtime: January 2009 - December 2012
What is Interactive Knowledge?
IKS - Interactive Knowledge Stack is an Integrating Project part-funded by the European Commission. It started in January 2009 and will provide an open source technology platform for semantically enhanced content management systems.
IKS is targeted on the hundreds of SMEs in Europe, which are providing technology platforms for content and knowledge management to thousands of end user organisations. Downstream, hundred-thousands of corporate end users and millions of content consumers are affected by the quality of service provided through these platforms. However, the majority of these platforms lack the capability for making use of semantic web enabled, intelligent content, and therefore, lack the capacity for users to interact with the content at the user‘s knowledge level.
The major technological result of the project will be the „Interactive Knowledge Stack“, a layered set of software components and specifications which will make traditional content management platforms capable of dealing with the future "Semantic Web".
The IKS project has a duration of 48 months and will have a budget of 8,5 M€ with 6,5 M€ requested funding. The project is organised in 10 Work Packages and uses an effort of 750 person months. It expects to leverage open source development outside the project, as well as external validations through CMS providers of the project results.
IKS is developed by a consortium of seven research partners and six industrial partners who use open source content management technology for their CMS and KMS frameworks:
Our contribution
Furtwangen University (HFU), more precisely Research Center for Intelligent Media (RCIM) will contribute 46 person months to the IKS project. The focus lies on the development of an “Intelligent Bathroom” use case which represents the "far out" vision of Interactive Knowledge by merging advanced content and knowledge management technologies with technologies developed by research on Ambient Intelligence and Internet of Things. In this use case, RCIM collaborates with DFKI and Duravit AG, a leading manufacturer of high-quality bathroom equipment, who provides IKS with high-end bathroom infrastructures. In Duravit’s latest show rooms RCIM will demonstrate the use of multimedia knowledge-driven Ambient Intelligence Infotainment within bathroom scenarios.
For instance, you are taking a bath while watching a football match with muted sound, and you are listening to music while waiting for a goal to be scored. Suddenly, you have a great idea concerning your work and with some simple spoken commands you dim the music, add your computer desktop to the display, and re-plan your latest project through gesture interaction while still relaxing in the bath...
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To realize this vision, the Research Center for Intelligent Media develops an initial design method for interactive knowledge-supported ambient environments (Workpackage 2) and deploys ambient environments supported by interactive knowledge according to previously defined requirements (Workpackage 4). The final results are evaluated ambient environments with different degrees of embedded interactive knowledge that support defined application scenarios. Based on design specifications of ambient environments supported by interactive knowledge, we will develop instrumented environments within the context of bathrooms provided by the confirmed (external) application partner Duravit AG.
In June 2011, we intent to demonstrate a software prototype for an embedded interactive knowledge management in our "bathroom" environment.