My guests on this Talking with Talis podcast are Wernher Behrendt  and John Pereira of Salzburg Research.  They are part of the team behind IKS – The Interactive Knowledge Stack an Integrating Project part-funded by the European Commission.

The four year project started in January 2009 to provide an open source technology platform for semantically enhanced content management systems.  The concept behind it being, that once developed, the stack can be bolted-on to many different CMS products to add semantic, and semantic web, capabilities.  Even though the project is open source, and the obvious use of it is with open source CMS tools, it’s use could be of equal value to commercial products.

Their target is engage with 40 small to medium organisations for whom developing such capability would not be possible with their limited resources.  They are already well on the way, with many joining in via the project Web site and participating at the first early adopters workshop in Salzburg in June.