METOKIS - Methodology and Tools Infrastructure for the Creation of Knowledge Units FP6 - Information Society Technologies (Proposal-No.: FP6-507164)

For content to become valuable in the knowledge economy, its relationship with knowledge workers' tasks needs to be explored. The primary scientific objective of the METOKIS project is to make a substantial contribution to the development of self-describing knowledge and content structures, by clarifying the relationships between content and the knowledge that may be encoded in the content. METOKIS will: Create a prototype ('knowledge content carrier architecture') building upon existing standards, and prototype knowledge content models which will be developed for semantic annotation of multi-media assets and for trading of knowledge units. Create applications that test and validate a ('knowledge content carrier architecture`) by putting it into action. To achieve this, the real world applications (each with different content knowledge) will build the following: A decision support system for senior executives. An educational on line- learning system. Evaluation of protocols for clinical trials. Develop a methodology and an economic framework detailing where and when the ('knowledge content carrier architecture') can be usefully applied. Aims of the METOKIS project are: To act as a pathfinder towards the notion of "Ambient intelligence." To define the software environment, so that knowledge and meta-data enriched content can be used more effectively. To lay a foundation for future tools needed by knowledge workers whose tasks will be increasingly based around the use of media content.

Participants	Country		Contact
Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH (Coordinator)	A		Wernher Behrendt wernher.behrendt(at)salzburgresearch.at
Knowledge View Ltd	UK		Roberto Minio roberto.minio(at)knowledgeview.co.uk
Empolis GmbH	D		Jasmin Franz Jasmin.Franz(at)empolis.com
Templeton College, University of Oxford	UK		Marshall Young marshall.young(at)templeton.ox.ac.uk
Institute for Media and communications, Management University St. Gallen	CH		Wolfgang Maas Wolfgang.Maass@unisg.ch
Ernst Klett Verlag GmbH (EC)	D		Wolfgang Volz w.volz(at)klett.de
YMEGA Establishment	LI		Hans Ladany Hans.Ladanyi(at)ymega.com