VIRTUAL INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE ENVIRONMENT

FRAMEWORK

IP-FP6- 507173

VIKEF OVERVIEW

14 Partners Consortium + EC From 8 countries 5 Research Centres From Norway to Spain

3 Universities From Italy to Ireland

6 SMEs

36 months duration (April 1st 2004 - March 31st 2007)

10 Mio. Euro budget

1.000 person months effort

VIKEF OBJECTIVES

1. To develop an advanced software framework for enabling the

integrated development of semantic-based Information, Content,

and Knowledge (ICK) management systems.

2. To develop an exemplary sectoral KVC application solution

based on this framework providing semantic-enabled community

services for the scientific and for the business domain.

3. To provide semantic web solutions & technologies to

stakeholders who can foster its future usage and adequate

exploitation.

Work Package Structure1st Review

WP5: Representation & Management of

Semantic Information

WP2: Core VIKEF

Infrastructure Development

WP15: Dissemination and Exploitation

WP6: Basic Semantic enabled

Community services

WP12: Project Management

WP14: Training

WP13: Project Assessment and Evaluation

WP8: Context

and Interoperability

WP1: VIKEF

Requirement

Analysis

WP10: AdvancedSemantic enabled

Community services

WP11: 2nd Integration

Prototype “Smart

Community

Support”

ISP-1 ISP-2 ISP-3

WP16: Demonstration

WP9: AdvancedMethods for

Semi-automatic, semanticContent Annotation

WP7: 1st Integration Prototype

“Smart

Content Factory”

WP3: Acquisition & Harmonization Support

WP4: Basic Methods for

Semi-automatic Content Annotation

VIKEF SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES

SCIENTIFIC WORKPACKAGES (1)

WP 1 – VIKEF Requirement Analysis

Goal:Goal: to collect the requirements for the VIKEF Framework in close cooperation between the potential users of the framework and the scientific partners

WP 2 – Core VIKEF Infrastructure Development

Goal:Goal: Design and Development of a core infrastructure for the VIKE-Framework as a basis for the development and communication of the framework and for the sound integration

WP 3 – Content and Knowledge Acquisition and Harmonization Support

Goal:Goal: Development of components for the import and harmonization of the selected content and knowledge resources.

WP 4 – Basic Methods for semi-automatic Content Annotation Goal: Goal: Development of components implementing basic functionality for the semi-automatic annotation of linguistic and multimedia content

WP 5 – Representation and Management of Semantic Information

Goal:Goal: The Development of an integrated component for the management of semantic information in the form of RDF models , and development of a component for taxonomies management

VIKEF SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES

SCIENTIFIC WORKPACKAGES (2)

WP6 – Basic semantic-enabled community services Goal:Goal: Development of a basic set of community services that reuse the semi-automatically extracted semantics to provide more effective and intelligent services to members of communities

WP 7 - Integration Prototype “Smart Content Factory” Goal:Goal: to build up a “smart content factory” prototype that “produces” smart (enriched) content from business and scientific content

WP 8 – Context and Interoperability Goal:Goal: Supporting semantic representation as well as context and interoperability in virtual information and knowledge environments

WP 9 – Advanced Methods for semi-automatic, semantic Content AnnotationGoal:Goal: The conceptualisation of foundational research (models & methods) and development of methods for the semantic annotation of textual and multimedia content

WP 10 – Advanced semantic-enabled Community Services

Goal:Goal: The Development of an advanced set of community services that fully reuse the semi-automatically extracted semantics to provide more effective and intelligent services to members of communities

WP 11 – Integration Prototype “Smart Community Support” Goal:Goal: S Showcasing the virtual information and knowledge environments that are enabled by the flexible integration of the overall project results into the VIKEF

DISSEMINATION

Objectives:

promote awareness raising increase understanding of the VIKEF outcomes foster the development of research activities

Target audience:

The European scientific community Standardization bodies in fields related to the scope of VIKEF Software developers in the field of Knowledge based systems Market actors and institutions in the Scientific Congress and Trade

Fairs industries.

CONTACT INFORMATION

http://www.vikef.net

Project Coordinator: INMARK

(Mr. Ruben Riestra, rar@inmark.es)

Scientific Coordinator: Fraunhofer-IPSI

(Dr. Claudia Niederee, niederee@ipsi.fraunhofer.de)