INFOBALT, October 22, 2004, Vinius IST4Balt project information dissemination using web-based knowledge systems Zigmas Bigelis EU projects consultant Asociation INFOBALT Visoriai IT park Juozas Zalatorius Deputy Director Information and Internet Technologies Institute Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

INFOBALT, October 22, 2004, Vinius Collaborative Knowledge Portal INFORMATIONKNOWLEDGE COMMUNICATION to INTERACTION Information (s earched and collected) ) PUBLISHING Project documents collaborative CREATING Documents ANALYSIS and EVALUATION NEWS items HELP (on the next stage transformed to knowledge system) I nformation TRANSFORMATIONn to knowledge by adding METADATA, e.g. Web links knowledge system ONTOLOGY development FEEDBACK knowledge system FAQ knowledge system CONTACTS (expertise and needs system) synchronous IM VoIP, e.g. Skype Presence Awareness Service asynchronous Discussion forum SEARCH on the website (using website ontology) SERVICES (subscribe newsletters and info, alert, e-certificate, e-consulting) REPORTING knowledge system

INFOBALT, October 22, 2004, Vinius Open Source portal  Sample  Plone: A user friendly and powerful open source Content Management System  Zope: an open source web application server primarily written in the Python programming language Python

INFOBALT, October 22, 2004, Vinius Plone  Plone is easy to use. Plone easy and attractive for content managers to add, update, and maintain content.  Plone is easy to install. You can install Plone with a click-and-run installer, and have a content management system running on your computer in just a few minutes.  Plone is international. The Plone interface has been translated into over 30 languages, and tools exist for managing multilingual content.  Plone is standard. Plone carefully follows standards for usability and accessibility. Plone pages are compliant with US Section 508, and the W3C's AA rating for accessibility, in addition to using best-practice web standards like XHTML and CSS. 

INFOBALT, October 22, 2004, Vinius Plone (cnt’d)  Plone is Open Source. Plone is licensed under the GNU General Public License, the same license Linux uses. This gives you the right to use Plone without a license fee, and to improve upon the product.  Plone is supported. There are close to a hundred developers in the Plone Development Team around the world, and a multitude of companies specializing in Plone development and support.  Plone is extensible. There are many add-on products for Plone that add new features and content types. In addition, Plone can be scripted using web standard solutions and Open Source languages.

INFOBALT, October 22, 2004, Vinius What is Zope?  Zope is an open source web application server primarily written in the Python programming language. Python  It features a transactional object database which can store not only content and custom data, but also dynamic HTML templates, scripts, a search engine, and relational database (RDBMS) connections and code. 

INFOBALT, October 22, 2004, Vinius Zope (cnt’d)  It features a strong through-the-web development model, allowing you to update your web site from anywhere in the world.  To allow for this, Zope also features a tightly integrated security model.

INFOBALT, October 22, 2004, Vinius Main Tasks  Information discovery Knowledge system for queries based on domain ontology Knowledge system for queries based on domain ontology  Information analysis and evaluation Collected web information analysis Collected web information analysis Documents analysis Documents analysis Feedback (demonstration, website) Feedback (demonstration, website)  Information dissemination Web-bases knowledge systems (links and extracts) Web-bases knowledge systems (links and extracts) Newsletters Newsletters Subscribed information (newsletters, new and uopdated info) Subscribed information (newsletters, new and uopdated info) Discussion forums and maps Discussion forums and maps  Reporting knowledge system

INFOBALT, October 22, 2004, Vinius Infoglut – search problems  Infoglut – information overload  Search – 16 % of worktime  68 % - finding information is difficult  35 % - impediment – info changes  28 % - poor tools  ery.pdf ery.pdf ery.pdf  Search results - analyzing and evaluation problem  Typically people look the first 20 or 30 results 

INFOBALT, October 22, 2004, Vinius Documents understanding, analyzing and evaluating NEEDS  Analyzing and evaluation of unstructured documents (Unstructured info is the largest part of the content)  Documents structurizing level is rather low (only content, list of tables and large parts)  Full text search using typical tools is inconvenient and insufficient, e.g. different terms used - Lithuania, Infobalt, VITP  A number of synonims that are used in document but are forgotten to use in search queries, e.g. Web site, web- system, web-based system, online system, internet system  Need for advanced search  Lack of analytical reports  Evaluating is made in manual mode and is sophisticated

INFOBALT, October 22, 2004, Vinius Analyzing and evaluating knowledge system prototype  Project IST4Balt description ( about 100 pages)  Enriched document text : Metadata for any paragraph or a few paragraphs Metadata for any paragraph or a few paragraphs  Domain taxonomy Needs for building domain taxonomy – it will be used for project information search (both on the Web and inside of projects documents) collecting, analyzing, evaluation and storing Needs for building domain taxonomy – it will be used for project information search (both on the Web and inside of projects documents) collecting, analyzing, evaluation and storing  Easy to understand interface

INFOBALT, October 22, 2004, Vinius Proposed document analysis procedures  Divide document to parts (1 or a few paragraphs)  Enter these parts to knowledge system  Enrich every part by adding metadata (for analysis and evaluation)  Metada system – domain taxonomy or ontology  Develop and update every day metadata system (network taxonomy and later enhance it to domain ontology)  Print or browse document analytical reports

INFOBALT, October 22, 2004, Vinius Evaluation Procedures  Develop evaluation criteria system  Enter theses criteria to domain taxonomy or ontology  Enrich every relevant part of document by criteria name, criteria value and notes  Print or browse reports for any criteria  Develop full evaluation report on the basis of knowledge system reports

INFOBALT, October 22, 2004, Vinius Report generating procedures  Develop simple and advanced search system  Develop reports forms for selected keywords  Compare reports from searching and generated by using previously selected keywords  Develop system of analytical reports as a visualized menu

INFOBALT, October 22, 2004, Vinius Example of menu

INFOBALT, October 22, 2004, Vinius Example of menu part Objectives Project Focus Milestones Schedule IDC INFOBALT Web site Web system Visoriai IT park Deliverables Web site content

INFOBALT, October 22, 2004, Vinius Part of report on “kick-off meeting”

INFOBALT, October 22, 2004, Vinius Proposals Proposals  Develop such a system for publishing information on the IST4Balt web site  Analytical reports on different point of views of document or its draft  Evaluation reports of document or its draft  Analysis and evaluation of proposals and comments during full life cycle of document  Analysis of a set of documents Training courses – analyzing of content Training courses – analyzing of content Market review - analyzing of content Market review - analyzing of content Technology study - analyzing of content Technology study - analyzing of content

INFOBALT, October 22, 2004, Vinius Thank you for attention ! Questions? Zigmas Bigelis EU projects consultant Asociation INFOBALT Visoriai IT park Juozas Zalatorius Deputy Director Information and Intelectual Technologies Institute Vilnius Gediminas Technical University