Content/Knowledge Provision service (CKP service, for short) is a learning service aimed at supporting Web-based workplace learning. This service is a part of the software solution that is being developed by the Soul Web project to provide technical support for Learning and Knowledge Building (LKB for short) processes within the extended organization. Extended Organization represents a community that emerges as a temporal integration of two or more different business and educational communities and organizational cultures (industrial, research, and educational). This service supports workplace learning situations where employees are often faced with the need to efficiently find, browse, share, and otherwise use electronic learning resources, but are usually constrained by limited time and other factors when they perform all these activities on their own. Specifically, CKP service serves as a content management system and semantic search engine within an extended organization. It enables employees to upload different kinds of Knowledge Objects (KOs) into a knowledge repository, annotate them, and (re-)discover relevant KOs by performing semantic search over the knowledge repository.

The demo version of the CKP service can be seen here.
 

JEFF is an explanation facility framework written in Java. Explanation facilities date from the era of expert systems (ES) where they were used in order to provide an explanation about the inference process. The explanation they provided was supposed to clarify how the ES reached its conclusions (the "HOW" explanation) or why it asked some question during fact acquisition (the "WHY" explanation). Some authors suggest that there is a third type of explanation that unveils the strategic decisions that affected the inference process (the “STRATEGY” explanation). Nowadays, traditional ES development environments ("shells") are replaced by rule engines (RE) and business rule management systems (BRMS) which seem to lack explanation facility functionality. JEFF was created in order to remedy this.

Goals and audience

The main goal of JEFF project is to provide an open-source and free (for all types of use, development and distribution) explanation facility framework in Java. It should be:

DEPTHS is an integrated environment for learning software design patterns (DPs). It integrates an existing Learning Management System (LMS), a software modeling tool, diverse collaboration tools and relevant online repositories of software DPs. LMS enables students to learn at the pace and in a place that best suits them providing them at the same time with a variety of learning activities and resources. The domain specific tool enables students to experience patterns-based software development in the context of real-world problems. Online repositories of software DPs provide students with plenty of important resources on DPs containing both valuable examples of DPs and instructions how they should be used. Collaboration tools support different kinds of collaborative activities, such as discussions, collaborative tagging, and commenting. To enable the integration of these different learning systems and tools in a comprehensive learning environment, we have used the Semantic Web technologies.