ConSense - Management of unstructured Information using semantic Metadata

The amount of unstructured electronic documents in enterprise environments is growing rapidly. The ConSense project aims to assist the enterprise wide lifecycle management of electronic documents by utilizing the context of document access by knowledge workers. From this context data one can deduct semantic relations among documents and business-domain specific entities which can be combined into a semantic network. Querying the resulting network allows for the discovery and reuse of unstructured documents.

Actual Business Domain
Knowledge workers use, create and collaborate with documents in business processes.

Context Sensors
Client-side software plugins track the context of business-relevant document usage and submit it in condensed form to the central semantic virtualization-store.

Semantic Virtualization
The context information is analyzed using heuristic business-rules resulting in semantic relationships among documents, persons, products, processes and services within the domain.

Task-specific Information
The semantic relationships are used to proactively supply knowledge workers with information and documents related to their actual task-context.

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