NEPOMUK Deliverable D7.1: NEPOMUK Collaborative Portal

NEPOMUK Deliverable D7.1: NEPOMUK Collaborative Portal

Executive Summary

Online community building starts with a visual identity, a strong web presence, a set of striking taglines, descriptions conveying the main characteristics of the community's project, and a concrete flyer facilitating the dissemination of the project's big picture in the real world. NEPOMUK’s visual identity consists of two logos conveying the concepts of high connection level between people or ideas, knowledge work on the desktop and Semantic Web principles. With respect to web presence, NEPOMUK Consortium has decided to maintain two distinct web sites:

• the NEPOMUK portal hosting the project presentation and the internal collaborative knowledge base: http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/,
• the NEPOMUK community web site aiming more specifically at raising community awareness on the topic of the Social Semantic Desktop: http://www.semanticdesktop.org.

• an internal wiki divided in several spaces: the main space hosts the internal knowledge base and is organized using a set of keywords ("tags"), the STC space stores documents related to the NEPOMUK Steering Committee work, while the IST space contains documents related to the dialogue with the EU IST Officers. The software used is XWiki;
• a mailing-list server (SYMPA);
• a Jabber server (Wildfire) hosting NEPOMUK chat room;
• a development server (Subversion).

• a community wiki aiming at becoming the reference knowledge base on the topic of personal information management on the desktop;
• a space dedicated to the annual Semantic Desktop workshop;
• a registration area inviting users to take part in the community. As of March 2006, around 50 persons external to the Consortium have registered on the community web site.
• Besides achieving this web presence, the NEPOMUK Consortium has designed a flyer targeting academic researchers, enterprise managers, consultants, as well as the man in the street willing to organize their personal information more efficiently. This flyer consists of a double-sided A4 sheet containing a set of taglines presenting the NEPOMUK approach, the project's URL, the list of NEPOMUK partners and some administrative information. In the next months, the NEPOMUK dissemination and awareness activities will consist in increasing considerably the presence of the NEPOMUK project on the web, in opening up some of the NEPOMUK technical task forces to external partners, in showcasing online the first prototypes realized by the Consortium and in widening the audience of the community web site.