The Final KiWi Review Meeting took place in Luxemburg. In the one-day-meeting, KiWi was evaluated by the European Commission about the project achievements.
 

The 3rd KiWi Annual Meeting took place in the freezing Munich with a “cool” temperature under minus 5 degrees . In the first day of meeting, Sebastian showed a demo of KiWi system with the new interface and made an overview of the workplan for the next months. In the second day, the enabling technologies presented a research summary of their work and last developments.

The Salzburg KiWi meeting was a great opportunity to get updated about the work progress of the project. We got a clear idea on how each party is conducting its tasks and performing its researches. Enabling technologies presented its advances in text extraction, reasoning and maintenance, and personalization. The use cases showed their ongoing work and reflected about particular changes occurred in the course of their project.

On December 27th and 28th there was a meeting of the KiWi project in Vienna, Austria, hosted by the semantic web company. All participants were represented so that we were able to update each other on the ongoing tasks. One of the major points of this meeting was to present the actual results to the others.

From my point of view the Munich Meeting was important to understand more in details what Munich and Brno partners are doing exactly. It was a great time to find out share points and plan later collaboration when implementing our personalization tasks. In particular, it was very helpful listen to François his point of view about usage model in KiWi. He emphasized that we need to have a concrete and clear vision about data we need for our usage model. This is primary requirement for our further development.

On September 25 and 26, idSpace project meeting took place in Aalborg. Partners reported their progress respectively and exchanged ideas on the next 3 months work. As the leader partner of Work Package 2, we mainly introduced the work on combination of creativity techniques and suggested another perspective on transformations. Besides, we have reached an agreement on the prior choices of creativity techniques for next step.

KIWI project consortium met in Prague between June 25 and June 27. Several advancements have been discussed in Prague such as requirements of use case partners for KIWI system, tag models, information extraction ideas, and reasoning about inconsistencies. Data model for the core system was discussed as well. The meeting was a success showing a convergence of ideas along the tagging, mesh up for integration with other enterprise information systems, as well as widget idea.