The objective of EPOS is to leverage a user’s efforts for his personal knowledge management for his own benefit as well as to evolve this within the organization. To reach this goal, EPOS addresses the following topics:

• modeling user's workspace, techniques for user observation and context identification - click for more details on that project line.
• description of information needs, query modification for collaborative information retrieval
• communication structures in interacting knowledge workspaces
• leveraging individual native information structures to models and ontologies, evidence calculation for ontology creation
• communication and negotiation protocols on the meta-level
• ontology-based visualization components, configuration rules for task-specific information-visualization

The EPOS project is successor of the FRODO (Framework for Distributed Organizational Memories) project and a lot of basic assumptions, methods, and techniques are grounded there. Here you can find the project homepage including publications.

The project team:

The project has finished. The successor projects are:

• EU Integrated Project Nepomuk
• MyMory
• ADIB - Adaptive Information Delivery
• lots of components are published as open source at OpenDFKI
• well, and finally also a DFKI spin-off the gnowsis.com

2016: Research at DFKI goes on. Latest projects are:

• We were part of the EU IP ForgetIT contributing with our new Semantic Desktop to Managed Forgetting, Contextualized Remembering and Synergetic Preservation
• Find videos and more detailed explanations of our newest Semantic Desktop at the Personal Preservation Pilot webpage
• the Semantic Desktop Server is the back-end of supSpaces