[iks-community] A Content and Knowledge Reference Infrastructure for IKS

[Bertrand Delacretaz]

Hi Rupert,

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Rupert Westenthaler
<rupert.westenthaler at salzburgresearch.at> wrote:
> ...I published a proposal for a "Content and Knowledge
> Reference Infrastructure" on the Wiki (see
> http://wiki.iks-project.eu/index.php/Content-knowledge-reference-infrastructure)...

Cool stuff, thanks!

> ...From  industry partners I would like to get feedback about the "big
> picture".
>  - Are the assumptions about public data sets and the challenges when using
> them correct?...

I didn't dig deep into your proposal yet, just read through it once -
but yes I would agree with your assumptions, let me rephrase: public
data is out there, different data sets have different views of the
world, copying it all is not an option, yet with suitable mappings and
local symbols where needed IKS components could use that data
efficiently.

I hope I'm not simplifying too much...coupled with annotations
provided by FISE, such a service sounds like a useful addition to our
CMS, that fits my favorite "RESTful add-on engines" model.

>  - Are important aspects missing?

Hard to say at this stage, I don't see any right now but we'd need to
try some of our user stories (like the ones at [1] maybe) on what you
suggest.

>
> I am quite excited about the work that BBC is doing in this area. Also the
> methodology of how they build web pages looks appealing to me!
>  - Do you agree with that?
>  - Are there weaknesses that you can spot?
>  - Any other good examples around? Examples for adding more data to linked
> data are not so interesting, but usage scenarios of public available
> content/knowledge for content management and (web) publishing would be
> great!...

I like what BBC presents in [2]. I'm not in close contact with our
customers so I don't know how many of them work like that, but that
sounds a lot like our "content first" mantra.

> ...Feedback and suggestions regarding the "Content and Knowledge
> Reference Infrastructure" and the specification for the symbol service are
> also very welcome.
> Especially user stories and usage scenarios would be great....

Maybe trying to map some of the user stories at [1] to what you
suggest would help?

-Bertrand

[1] http://wiki.iks-project.eu/index.php/User-stories
[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2009/01/how_we_make_websites.shtml