Selected slides from internal presentations setting out the state of the EU Commission's Knowledge4Policy (K4P) platform as it leaves its "Beta phase", and exploring some of its innovations. Full context: https://medium.com/knowledge4policy/knowledge4policy-is-out-of-beta-what-have-we-learnt-so-far-bce19b09f242 on K4P's Medium Publication.

1. Joining Up Science & Policy
requires
- before anything else –
Joined Up Science
(plus much more)
1

2. Before K4P: the Question
2
“I want some
evidence4policy
on (for example*)
migration”
* or any other topic
?

3. Before K4P: The Answer, Part 1
3
“Let’s start with the
Joint Research Centre”

4. 4
JRC Publications JRC Datasets
Knowledge Centre on
Migration & Demography:
on JRC Science Hub, + 2 databases:
Foresight Competence
Centre, Migration Topic

5. Before K4P: The Answer, Parts 2,
3, 4, 5...
5
“Now let’s visit five other EU
Commission Departments...”
(User giving up)

6. After K4P: The Answer
6
“Search Here”

7. K4P Mission at a Glance
• What: scientific knowledge for policymakers
• Who: scientists and policymakers
• Why: closer interactions between them
• Where: across EU Commission and beyond
– scientific knowledge for policy from across Europe
– for policymakers across Europe
7

8. Integrated yet Flexible Architecture
8
Topic
Platform Level:
Seamless presentation of all
knowledge
Knowledge Services:
• Filtered view of Knowledge Base.
• Additional local, KS-specific taxonomies,
• powering KS-specific search, Topics, etc.
• Customisable, yet coherent.
• Local home for Communities of Knowledge*
Themes*
Geo-
graphical*
Home page
Global
Search
My
Platform*
KS-specific Search
Everything in one database
Linked to, not owned by, any one Knowledge Service
Knowledge
Base
Local
Taxonomies
Knowledge
Service
Knowledge
Service
Community*
* Not in MVP

9. CONTENT TYPES & KEY MENUS
Quick Tour
9

10. Global Resource
10
Eurostat dataset curated by
Bioeconomy Knowledge Centre
The Resource
Imported from one of
several CKAN databases
Content discovery
across Platform
via Global & Local
Taxonomies
& automated taxonomy
matching Global Eurostat
Organisation Profile
Global Taxonomy
Menus
All linked KS, their
Local Topics &
Local Tag menus

11. Global Organisation Profile
11
Eurostat Profile
The Organisation
Consolidated from
several CKAN dbases
Its K4P Content
curated by multiple
Knowledge Services.
Facet-searchable
Linked Knowledge
Services
each link customisable
to highlight specific
knowledge, menus,
etc.
Content Discovery
via automated
taxonomy matching

12. Local Topic & Country Menus
12
The Knowledge:
Executive Summary. Flexible:
text, images, data visualisations,
highlighted resources ...
Example: Bioeconomy Knowledge Service
Left: Economy Topic Menu
Right: Denmark Country Menu
The Information & Data
underpinning that Knowledge:
publications, data, other
resources, news, organisations,
projects etc. classified with this
local Topic/Country taxonomy.
Facet-Searchable.

13. Knowledge Service Home:
one default, one alternative
13
Economies of Scale
Alternative layout done
for one Knowledge
Service, made available
to all.
Time required to change
design: 3 seconds.

14. FACETED SEARCH
Granular, yet Usable, Content Discovery
14

15. Freetext Search from K4P Home
15
Refining Search Results with
Global Taxonomies:
• Knowledge Service
• Content type
• Related organisation
• K4P Thesaurus, itself
searchable:

16. ‘Bundling’ Content Types
to improve usability
16
Pre-select content type
or content type bundle:
“Resources” bundles six
different content types.

17. Content Type-specific facets
17
Filtering by Publications
unlocks extra facets:
• Publication Type (4)
• Year of Publication

18. Searching within a Knowledge Service:
Local Taxonomies, Higher Granularity
18
Bioeconomy: two
Local Taxonomies
• Topic Menus
• Local Tags

19. SYSTEM & TAXONOMIC
ARCHITECTURE
Under the Hood
19

20. Scalable System Ecology
• Pubsy: JRC Publications
• CKAN data catalogues:
datasets
– JRC datasets from JRC data
catalogue
– Non-JRC datasets from KS’
catalogs
• Newsroom: News and Events
– + sends enewsletters (future)
• Drupal
– other content
– manages presentation of
content
– user subscription management
• Next? CORDIS
20
K4P
Knowledge
Base
News
room
Pubsy
Drupal
Other
knowledge
Drupal
?
?
K4P on
Webenewsletters
Sends
JRC Data
Catalogue
KS Data
Catalogues

21. 3-layer Taxonomic Architecture
21
Local
Taxonomy
EUROVOC
(~7000 terms in total)
Digital EUROPA Thesaurus
(~1500 terms in total)
Overlap: ~1300 EuroVoc
terms in DET
~180 non-
Eurovoc terms
in DET
DET Term
EUROVOC
Term
Linked terms
(via VocBench)
Local
Term

22. 3-layer architecture:
Management & Exploitation
VocBenchManage
Publish
Machine-readable
taxonomy
Drupal 7
CMS
Drupal 8
CMS
Other
applications

23. K4P ON CONNECTED
Internal Collaboration
23

24. What’s on Connected>K4P?
24
Get Support
Steering Group
Meeting Prep
Current
Highlights
User Manual
Report a Bug
Who’s Who
Activity Feed,
Weekly Team
Catchups...
Development
Pipeline &
Discussion
Identity
Redacted

25. 1. Idea
• Brief description
• Gather interest
2. Define it
• Consensus on What
• Cost Estimate
3. Go/NoGo?
• Prioritisation
4. Under
Development
• Managed on Jira
5. Delivered
• User Manual
Update
Feature/Change Requests at a Glance
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• Discussion:
Comments &
Upvotes
(= popularity)
• Output: “Define
in detail” or
“Drop”
• Discussion:
“What would
this look like?
And imply?”
• Output:
technical spec,
effort estimate
• Discussion:
Cost/Benefit
analysis
• Output:
Prioritisation
• Reports &
Questions on
Connected as
required

26. Finding Consensus Across
Multiple Teams
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<<snip>>
Step 2: Discussion Document
• Idea Fleshed into Costed* Spec
• (*ballpark costing)
• Discussed via Comments
• Major issues escalated to
Steering Group Meeting
Identity Redacted