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Knowledge Base Discovery Project status report -- May 2003
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (smyser)
Wed Jun 11 22:09:41 2003
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May 2003 Status Report
Project name: Knowledge Base Discovery Project
Project leader: Rob Smyser
Web URL: http://web.mit.edu/is/discovery/kb/
Accomplishments past period:
- Presented a project introduction at IT Partners; distributed a paper
survey about features and content providing. Received 4 responses.
- Revised online survey for IT Partners and other content providers.
Awaiting a quorum on the list of people to send it to.
- Bryant Vernon joins the group, bring considerable technical depth and
experience in evaluating software, as well as links to other projects such
as the discussion board discovery project and his own ispartners discussion
system.
- Surveyed Open Source systems that might suit our purposes. Established a
couple of demo systems on local machines to try out. Results are
inconclusive.
- Kevin presented an IT Information Architecture, to place KB solidly within
a larger context of synergistic systems. Lively discussion of what's in or
not in a reasonable KB system from the perspective of the architecture.
Goals for the coming period:
- send the survey to ct-lead and itpartners, trolling for more "voice of the
customer"
- schedule demos/reviews of commercial systems, such as KnowledgeBase.net,
Kanisa, Serviceware, etc.
- develop scheme for evaluating features and prioritizing for product
selection.
- draw up a generalized scheme of the it information architecture for the
report.
- find some open source content management / portal systems to set up and
test.
Next community milestone:
None
Issues:
- a couple of team members have injuries (wrist) that keep them from playing
as much as they'd like.
Key learnings:
Team dynamics:
- our sails are filling with wind again after a bit of a time in the
doldrums.
Additional comments:
