Projects
The following sample of the projects I have been involved in give an indication of the scope of my R&D activities.
The purpose of the GRASS project is to develop a system allowing groups of authors with at least partially opposed interests to produce focused reports assessing the consensus on contentious issues, such as environmental and social dilemmas. GRASS functionality is grounded in Habermas's theory of communicative
action, but offers concrete collaborative workflow support.
The goal of the CODRIVE project is to develop a European standard for vocational competencies. This will be accomplished by developing a methodology and supporting tool infrastructure that will allow organizations to specify and reach agreement on their common inter-organizational ontologies.
The goal of the METIS project was the development of knowledge on
how to make organisations smarter by focusing on:
- Collaboration & communication: Results weblog studies,
communities, knowledge exchange across projects (project memory),
knowledge exchange across sales and R&D, motivation, and culture.
- Relating and visualizing information and communication:
Results on development and evaluation of -what the Metis members call-
'knowledge maps'. 'Knowledge maps' are aggregations and visualisations of
information and communication aimed to provide easier access to the
information and knowledge that is available within an organisation.
Knowledge maps are automatically generated from the existing systems. This
folder includes studies on how people search for information and
knowledge.
- Organisational perspectives on knowledge management
Results on KM perspectives with different levels in KM (strategic,
tactical, operational) and different roles: Knowledge Goverance Framework;
role of planning and timing in KM: Just-in-Time KM; role of dynamic
capabilities of organsations and an Intellectual Capital approach to
project selection; objective of perspectives is to support awareness,
communication, measurement and decision making.
The goal of this University of Tilburg project was to provide information about publishers'
policies on institutional repositories (IRs), and to simplify the
administration involved. It resulted in a knowledge bank with copyright
regulations pertaining to IRs, linked to metadata on journals and articles
from journals.
The purpose of the PORT collaboratory is to digitize, transcribe,
annotate, and analyze the collected manuscripts of Charles S. Peirce
located at Harvard University's Houghton Library. The archive contains
approximately 100,000 unpublished pages on high acid paper, which are
expected to survive only another 50 years if unhandled. PORT's main foci
are to develop a model collaboratory for distributed scholarly Peirce
manuscript analysis, and to meta-model the testbed development process,
making use of Peirce's pragmatism to help guide collaboratory participants
in the design process.
The goal of this project was to improve the performance of electronic
business networks by identifying business models of networked
organisations, assessing the impact of telematics on organisations, and
developing effective implementation strategies of telematics in
organisations
The goal of this project was to prototype, demonstrate and evaluate a
lightweight Electronic Commerce environment (Electronic Commerce-broker)
for the facilitation of smaller-scale and more diverse Electronic Commerce
applications.
GRNSD (Global Research Network on Sustainable Development)
This project aimed to find new ways to apply then (1993-1994) new Internet technologies to facilitate worldwide research collaboration on sustainable development. The
GRASS project is a direct descendant from this project.
Last updated: April 11, 2007
