Projects 2001
Our core competencies are reflected in the conducted projects in the years ('01, '02, '03, '04, '05, '06, '07, '08). In these projects we have covered projects in the field of knowledge management, e-learning, integrating working and learning, and business-process-oriented knowledge infrastructures.
Projects
GKMS - Generic Knowledge Management System
Partner: CONCEPT Data Systems Systemanalyse und Softwareentwicklung GmbH
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The goal of this project is the design and partial implementation of an information warehouse for internal use in small companies under consideration of knowledge management aspects: different types of information such as e-mail, office documents, and company data are stored, structured, brought into context, and can be searched via an unifying portal. The information existing in the system is being made textually available and through the extraction of meta-information a unified, comfortable search in the whole stock of documents is realized. A contextualized combination of the information returned by the search query can help to simplify knowledge-creation and -transfer. Because most of the information is customer-relevant data, we also research the coherences to customer relationship management systems. For this purpose first a comparison of web technologies was performed. After the decision was made to implement the portal from scratch the two modules time tracking and navigation tree were implemented using ASP and ASP.NET. Summary (PDF, German only): |
Semantic Web
Partner: Hyperwave Software Research & Development Ges.m.b.H.
The World Wide Web is growing every day and every day it becomes harder for its users to find the content they are looking for. Semantic Web activities aim on changing this by organizing and adding semantics to Web data so that it can be analysed and reasoned on by machines. This study examines a variety of technologies (standards, protocols, and web-services) with which this goal could be achieved and offers definitions of terms such as "semantic Web" and "ontology". For each technology its history, creators, applications, etc. are presented, the technologies are compared and their significance for future developments is evaluated.
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WFM - Workflow Management System
Partner: Hyperwave Software Research & Development Ges.m.b.H.
The goal of this project is to evaluate, how a "Workflow Management System" is to integrate into a Document Management System (DMS) and what enhancements such a combination would achieve. The insights of a first evaluation phase flew into the more practical task of developing a "workflow management system" prototype system based on the Hyperwave IS/6 knowledge management platform. Some of the results of the project were:
- Definition of user requirements for a "Workflow Management System"
- Evaluation of technical requirements for the implementation of a "Workflow Management System"
- A running prototype system to proof the value and usefulness of the combination of a "Workflow Management System" and a Document Management System
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eLearning as a Completion of traditional Training Methods in Computing Instruction
Partner: Technical Didadic Spezialist Press, Schweiz
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The project is carried out as a bilateral project with a well-known training institute specialized in computing instruction. Its preferred teaching method consists in conventional instruction, that is seminars in which a trainer teaches a group of learners the focal topics of the domain with the participants learning in front of a computer. The program is supplemented by using a multimedia CD-ROM. The project is occupied with the task to optimally complete and enriche the current courses by introducing eLearning methods. The following key topics are part of the project:
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Generator for Interactive Multimedia Contents
Partner: Dynamic Media Ges.m.b.H., Hyperwave Research & Development Ges.m.b.H.
The generator project inquires and makes available concepts and technologies which allow for the integration of authoring tools for eLearning courses with the services and applications of web-based platforms. The project is divided into three phases: the analysis of requirements, the evaluation and comparison of different technologies for the presentation of multimedia interactive contents in networked surroundings, and the realization.
The result is a software prototype which translates multimedia offline-contents of the Dynamic Power Trainer into the streaming-compatible online-format SMIL. The program is under further development by the project partner Dynamic Media and is used in their product line.
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Management of Intellectual Capital
Partner: Gosch Consulting Ges.m.b.H., Hyperwave Research & Development Ges.m.b.H.
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Two aims are traced by the project. The first goal is to develop a methodology for the implementation of an instrument serving for the management of intellectual capital. Thereby the foundation for a consulting service should be layed. The methodology consists of a practice guideline instructing how such an implementation should take place and of a catalogue of indicators used in practical settings for surveying intellectual capital. The target groups are companies which intend to support their internal knowledge management by the management of intellectual capital as well as business consultancies. The second goal of the project is to collect theoretic experiences with the management of intellectual capital as well as practical experiences with its concrete implementation. For this purpose case studies are carried out in two different companies for testing the developed instrument for its applicability and usefulness. Summary (PDF, German only): |
eLearning Study
Partner: Dynamic Media, Hyperwave Leykam Buchverlag
eLearning is a world-spanning and active area concerning research, development, and marketing. For the single company it is very demanding to get an overview upon, to analyse, and to observe the continuing changes in that domain. Since there is an on-going progress, especially concerning technology, this task becomes always more demanding. For companies which are interested in eLearning it is of high importance to be informed in time about the newest developments and possibilities. The aim of the project is to process eLearning on the basis of five key aspects and to make available the results in a written form. The study contains the topics listed below:
- Overview upon eLearning
- Inventory of eLearning standardization activities
- Inventory of business and marketing models
- Competitor analysis concerning LMS and authoring tools
- Online customer-survey with top-companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
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Study "Evaluation of internet-based Forms of Cooperation"
Partner: Gosch Consulting Ges.m.b.H., Leykam Medien AG
The project is organized into the following three sections:
Section 1: A classification of internet-based forms of cooperation and the results of an evaluation concerning synchronous, internet-based types of cooperation are presented. An overview upon current internet-based systems of cooperation, communication, and co-ordination together with a summary of their core functionalities is given. Further, market-relevant systems which support the synchronous communication and cooperation are reported.
Section 2: Relevant software systems which enable the development and management of dynamic knowledge and information pools are summarized.
Section 3: An analysis of network-compatible tools for project management which enable project management across distributed locations and its results are reported. Only such software systems are considered which contain adequate basis functionalities in the domain of project management. Example systems are listed.
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