SYNERGY (Supporting Highly-adaptive Networked Enterprise Collaboration
through Semantically-enabled Knowledge Services) is a new 3 year
European-funded Seventh Framework Research Project which commenced on
the 1 February 2008. It will research the knowledge sharing and
collaboration support needs of stakeholders working collaboratively both
internally within organisations, and within partnerships and new virtual
network and business models. The project offers end user organisations
an opportunity to participate in this leading edge research to address
their unique requirements, to undergo a knowledge assessment of their
collaboration needs, and the potential to pilot and test utility-based
services developed during the project. The research will be carried out
by a collaborative consortium of eight business and academic teams from
England, France, Germany, Greece, Serbia and Switzerland.
SYNERGY aims to (a) provide semantic ontology-based modelling of
knowledge structures on collaborative working; (b) develop the
service-oriented self-adaptive SYNERGY holistic solution for
knowledge-based collaboration services; and (c) facilitate the testing
and evaluation of the efficiency and effectiveness of the SYNERGY
solution in concrete case studies in business and industry.
An Open Source approach to project-related software development will be
taken.
The life science and healthcare sector will be one primary focus area
for the project.
The project will have assessment, development and application phases:
1. we will analyse and assess how various kinds of groups share their
knowledge currently and, where there are gaps, what would their
requirements be for improved collaboration support in future
2. we will develop a highly intelligent and dynamically adaptive
technological system based on collaboration patterns and the
numerous knowledge flows between systems and knowledge workers
that exist within networked organisations
3. we will pilot and test the utility-based services developed in
Phase 2 in real-life situations, in a variety of groups of smaller
companies and larger organisations
We are currently opening the selection process for companies, groups or
teams who have a need for knowledge-oriented collaboration and would be
interested to undergo a detailed assessment of their knowledge-sharing
practices and future collaboration support needs.
A more detailed summary of the research project is available at:
http://barryhardy.blogs.com/theferryman/2008/02/knowledge-orien.html
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We will hold an information meeting and Knowledge Café in Basel,
Switzerland on March 6th:
http://barryhardy.blogs.com/theferryman/2008/02/synergy-knowled.html
If you would be interested in participating, and you would like to
attend, please contact nicki.douglas -(at)- douglasconnect.com to
request a guest pass.
If unable to attend, please contact me using an email to barry.hardy
-(at)- douglasconnect.com to initiate a discussion.
The SYNERGY project website is located at http://www.synergy-ist.eu/
best regards
Barry Hardy
Douglas Connect
Switzerland
