Description

Knowledge management has been called everything from innovative and crucial to new wine in old bottles and dead. Usually, different perceptions spring from different perspectives. The aim of I-KNOW is to bring a broad array of these perspectives together, to learn from each other and to jointly find promising ways ahead for the future. In 2007, this will be reflected by putting special emphasis on discovering and comprehensively managing knowledge relationships, and on service-based knowledge management solutions.

The success story of the I-KNOW conference series started in 2001: In that year, the first I-KNOW conference doubled as the opening event of Know-Center and already attracted 150 attendees. The conference had been planned as an annual event from the very beginning, and has been growing continuously in the following years: The conference has drawn 200 attendees in 2002, 250 in 2003, 350 in 2004, 450 in 2005 and more than 500 in 2006.

Today, this makes I-KNOW the largest knowledge management conference of its kind in Europe, bringing together academics and practitioners every year. It has built a special reputation not only for its high-quality papers and presentations, but also for paying particular attention to enabling networking among attendees. The I-KNOW conference series follows an open access policy, providing the full texts of all papers and slides on its Web site, given the permissions of the authors.

Beginning in 2007, I-KNOW will be complemented by I-MEDIA and I-SEMANTICS. This extension of I-KNOW reflects the increasing importance and convergence of knowledge management, new media technologies and semantic technologies. This lets participants of both conferences benefit from the synergies of both events, in particular from the presence of a range of different yet related perspectives at the same time and place.

The conference is organized by the consortium member TU Graz and its technology-transfer center Know-Center (which is an associate member). Among others, there will be talks on Wikis as a Technology Fostering Knowledge Maturing: What we can learn from Wikipedia (by Simone Braun and Andreas Schmidt) and on User-Driven Semantic Wiki-based Business Service Description (by Heiko Paoli and Andreas Schmidt). The first presents results on real-world maturing from analyzing Wikipedia, the second approach applies the idea of user-driven evolution to semantic service descriptions.

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