The IKS Project aims to build an open source technology platform for semantically enhanced content management systems (CMS). The project is co-funded by the European Union and brings together seven research partners and six industrial partners. The mission is to close gaps in engineering, research, and industry adoption by developing semantic capabilities for CMS frameworks and enabling direct user interaction with knowledge objects.

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IKS Project
 „InteractiveKnowledge Stack (IKS) is an open source
community, whose projects are focused on building an
open and flexible technology platform for semantically
enhanced Content Management Systems (CMS).”
 The mission of the IKS community is to provide an
organizational platform and community for Open Source
software projects in the Semantic CMS space.
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The Mission
 Interactive Knowledge will close the ...
 … engineering gap for CMS architectures: the IKS will enable many
open source CMS frameworks to become “semantic”.
 … research gap on user interaction with knowledge objects: the
use of semantics to support direct user interaction with knowledge
content.
 … research gap on empirical validation: six technology providers
and 50 smaller CMS/KMS providers for controlled engineering
experiments to ensure quantitative analysis of requirements and
technology validation for semantically enabled, interactive knowledge
and CMS.
 ... impact gap for industrial take-up: six industrial partners in the
consortium and 50 more European CMS/KMS providers and presence
in standards bodies (W3C,OASIS, etc).
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EU Project
 “There are several hundred CMS and KMS provider for
SMEs in Europe. Most of them are currently not able to
leverage semantics-based technology for use in their
systems. This has a negative impact downstream, on
thousands of end-user organisations which are served
by these providers.”
 Interactive Knowledge is funded in part by a €6.58m
grant from the European Union
 Core consortium of seven research partners and six
industrial partner
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The IKS Consortium
Project Lead and Coordination Wernher Behrendt
Salzburg Research Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Jakob Haringer Straße 5/3 | 5020 Salzburg, Austria
T +43.662.2288-409 | F +43.662.2288-222
wernher.behrendt@salzburgresearch.at
www.salzburgresearch.at
Deutsches Universität St. Gallen
Forschungsinstitut
für Künstliche
Intelligenz (DFKI)
Consiglio Software
Nationale delle Quality Lab
Ricerche (CNR) Unversität Paderborn
Software Research and Saarland
Development University
Consultancy Ltd (SRDC)
Nuxeo Sa. Alkacon Software GmbH
TXT Polymedia Pisano Holding GmbH
Nemein Oy Day Software
(now Adobe Systems)
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The Original Stack
„Hypothesis“
 Developing technical solutions
for providing semantic
capabilites on the different
layers of the stack
 Reference implementations of
the semantic stack
 Specification languages and
models
 Methodologies for the
systematic specification and
development of semantic CMS
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The „Four Layer Stack“
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IKS Insights
http://dev.iks-project.eu:8080/engines
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