This is an interesting one. An email earlier today alerted me to the SYNERGY research project, a new 3 year European-funded Seventh Framework Research Project that will research the knowledge sharing and collaboration support needs of stakeholders both within organizations, and within partnerships and new virtual network and business models.
Sounds fancy and all that, and in principle not a bad idea at all, although there are so many projects like this, most of which are more words than substance, that one is always a little skeptical. Most of the time, the projects fail because the participants just don’t have the time or will to make the necessary sacrifices and invest the resources, leading to half-baked solution.
Moving away from the cynicism, lets take a closer look at some of the projects. Here are the groups of objectives
Provide semantic ontology-based modeling of knowledge structures for collaborative working
Develop a service-oriented self-adaptive holistic solution for knowledge-based collaboration services
Facilitate the testing and evaluation of the efficiency and effectiveness of the SYNERGY solution at end users sites
My interest is, as expected, in the first two items. My only suggestion, keep things simple. The life science industry is rife with ontologies that are much too complex and architectures that try to chew off more than they should.
SYNERGY research project
This is an interesting one. An email earlier today alerted me to the SYNERGY research project, a new 3 year European-funded Seventh Framework Research Project that will research the knowledge sharing and collaboration support needs of stakeholders both within organizations, and within partnerships and new virtual network and business models.
Sounds fancy and all that, and in principle not a bad idea at all, although there are so many projects like this, most of which are more words than substance, that one is always a little skeptical. Most of the time, the projects fail because the participants just don’t have the time or will to make the necessary sacrifices and invest the resources, leading to half-baked solution.
Moving away from the cynicism, lets take a closer look at some of the projects. Here are the groups of objectives
My interest is, as expected, in the first two items. My only suggestion, keep things simple. The life science industry is rife with ontologies that are much too complex and architectures that try to chew off more than they should.
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