September 5, 2011
by jpereira
Comments Off on IKS Contest for best apps built on top of IKS Technology
IKS is calling on developers to build killer User Experiences on top of IKS technology. The two top ranked winners receive 40,000 Euro a piece to realise their winning proposal, and three runners-up receive 10,000 Euro to get their submissions to demo stage.
August 31, 2011
by Andreas Gruber
Comments Off on Create Rich User Experiences with VIE widgets
Many of today’s web applications and most content management systems mesh their UI front-end deeply with their repositories. As Henri Bergius from Nemein pointed out in a recent blog – “Just to make your website editable you need to accept the web framework imposed by the system, the templating engine used by the system, and the editing tools used by the system. Want to have a better user interface?” The first step is to decouple the front-end from the database in a way, so that the Web Editing Tools “understand” what parts of a page should be editable and what they are about. Continue Reading →
August 30, 2011
by Andreas Gruber
Comments Off on Apache Stanbol – Free and Ready to use Semantic Engine for Content Management
The IKS vision is to bring semantic technologies as open source components to small and medium sized CMS providers. A major contribution of IKS to the CMS space is Apache Stanbol, the open source semantic enhancements engine that is being developed as immediately usable software for existing content management systems. Continue Reading →
August 9, 2011
by Avolpini
Comments Off on What do you love…about IKS? An early adopter’s account.
The workshop in Paris has been a great opportunity to take a quick and refreshing dive into one of the most exciting EU-funded projects on Semantic Web technologies.
We at InSideOut10 (running this project in partnership with Interact SpA, one of the companies I co-founded in the mid-nineties to help Public Institutions as well as Private companies developing their own footprint on the Web) are participating as early-adopters and we’re working on a WordPress Plug-In code-named WordLift to help bloggers around the world “spoon-feeding” HTML Microdata to Search Engines (following the May 2011 announcement of Schema.org – you can find more about this topic on last Wernher’s post).
July 20, 2011
by Lynda
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Only the arrogant and presumptuous would take herself totally seriously when invited to speak to any group of technology experts, entrepreneurs with a healthy sprinkling of cognitive scientist in the mix. So, finding myself kicking off the second day of IKS-Community workshop in Paris, I was well aware of the audience and the challenge to offer appropriate and practical guidance about the marketplace for their ideas, developed and seminal.