1. kea-pro ACTIVE Enabling the Knowledge-Powered Enterprise http://www.active-project.eu

2. Next generation knowledge management 3 years: March 2008 – February 2011 €12M (€8M EU funding) 12 partners - BT coordinator Research challenges sharing knowledge – combining formal and informal approaches using task context to manage information presentation sharing and reusing knowledge processes Case studies engineering, consultancy, telecoms

3. kea-pro

4. coordinator and case study partner knowledge representation machine learning & training knowledge processes costs & benefits of knowledge modelling knowledge workspace & integration knowledge workspace, exploitation strategy case study partner project management organisational validation user validation

5. sharing processes & sharing in processes Knowledge sharing using context within processes & processes to understand context sharing knowledge in context & sharing context Task context Knowledge processes

6. Ontologies - rich representations permit reasoning, but with a creation and maintenance cost Folksonomies - no overhead cost, but limited knowledge representation capability Marrying the formal and informal approaches to knowledge representation

7. Information glut leads to overload and constant task-switching Context-driven solutions - learning & using context - understanding priorities Delivering information in context

8. Learn, codify, reuse and share … modify & share again informal – created by their users dynamic – anyone can modify Reusing and sharing knowledge processes

9. More than the sum of 3 parts! Sharing in context - & using tags to identify and share context Sharing processes - & sharing within processes Taking account of context within processes - & using processes to understand context

10. The Knowledge Workspace - alongside existing applications

11. Knowledge-sharing - costs, benefits and incentives Validating against the user’s needs Validating against the organisation’s needs kea-pro

12. Sales and technical support adding value to work processes Global consultants understanding scale Electronics design specialist processes

13. Dissemination to researchers, industrialist, decision-makers by all ACTIVE partners Training - summer schools, on-line learning … Commercial exploitation by ACTIVE commercial partners

14. Thank you! http://www.active-project.eu