The idSpace project focuses on researching and developing a platform for distributed collaborative product innovation and aims at solving a number of shortcomings present in the currently available alternatives. Topic maps is an important factor in solving a number of issues, such as sharing concepts, reusing ideas and knowledge and creating an integrated ontology that ties all the aspects of a creative process together. It provides the project with means to help the user establish a fruitfull collaboration with other teammembers working in different locations.

1. idSpace Distributed Collaborative Product Innovation FP7-ICT-2007-1-4.1, STREPGrant agreement no. 216199 November 12th 2009 @tmra

2. Contents idSpace Faced problems Goals Integrated ontology Distributed collaboration Topic Maps based distributed collaboration Demo

3. idSpace Tooling of and training for collaborative, distributed, product innovation

4. Faced problems Tools limited to a single technique No tool to support dynamic technique selection Lack of distributed and collaborative tools Lack of reuse of ideas and knowledge

5. Goals The idSpace platform should support a range of pedagogical strategies and several types of creativity techniques The platform should be build on semantic principles, specifically Topic Maps, and should incorporate an ontology which integrates all elements of a creative process. The platform should facilitate distributed collaboration and support users who are not experts either in the field of creativity or in the field of semantics.

6. Goals The idSpace platform should support a range of pedagogical strategies and several types of creativity techniques The platform should be build on semantic principles, specifically Topic Maps, and should incorporate an ontology which integrates all elements of a creative process. The platform should facilitate distributed collaboration and support users who are not experts either in the field of creativity or in the field of semantics.

7. Integrated ontology All aspects of creative processes Techniques Strategies All generated knowledge Problems Ideas solutions

8. Process ontology

9. Ideation ontology

10. Goals The idSpace platform should support a range of pedagogical strategies and several types of creativity techniques The platform should be build on semantic principles, specifically Topic Maps, and should incorporate an ontology which integrates all elements of a creative process. The platform should facilitate distributed collaboration and support users who are not experts either in the field of creativity or in the field of semantics.

11. Distributed Collaboration Establishing goals Definition Voting Establishing shared concepts ‘Speak the same language’ Multiple definitions Voting Selection

12. Distributed Collaboration Ideation Graph based idea linking Text-base property editing Portlet based Solving Linking idea sets to goals

13. Topic Maps based distributed collaboration Client Server init? Full data Time poll? register Updated data changes 20s

14. Demo