In only two years, the Interactive Knowledge Stack (ICS) (ニュース, サイト) project has released its first working demo of a semantic knowledge engine and is making quite a stir, as early adopters begin integrating it into their content management software. Recent events have also seen part of the results acceptance as an Apache incubator projected named Stanbol. Here’s an update.

Much to the dismay of some, IKS did release an alpha version of their project. CMSWire has followed the EU-funded effort since the early stages, inviting readers to become an early adopter, or fill in the semantic features survey. The first working demo, FISE The RESTful Semantic Engine, was released by Nuxeo (ニュース,部位) a few months ago, with new developments to the story already.

What Is IKS and Why Does It Matter?

IKS is an open source project whose purpose is to add semantic functionality to content management systems. The large project is still in its early stages, so there is more to see from it in the future. The goal of the project is to make semantic technologies popular, which in turn will speed the implementation of semantic functionality in CMS.

IKS is not a single project. It has several sub-projects and a consortium of seven research partners and six industrial partners — the idea being to bridge science and research with business. For those who may want to see IKS components first hand, the second annual Amsterdam workshop on the 9th and 10th of December will demonstrate the new Stanbol architecture for the first time.

As for what a Semantic Engine does, here are some common examples of semantic functionality:

Categorize documents

Suggest meaningful tags

Find related documents and assets

Extract and recognize known entities

Detect yet unknown entities

Extract knowledge assertions

を介して 更新: 確かな進展を見せてIKSセマンティック技術プロジェクト.