Architecture

From IKS Project

One of the main challenges of the IKS project is to provide a reference architecture for semantically enabled CMS. But what will be the major difference considering traditional CMS architectures, and what will IKS provide on top of this? Based on this and the FISE approach the development of IKS components started and a first IKS release called "IKS Alpha" will be available soon. By reason of the IKS Alpha release we have put together a document describing the status of IKS development and to give an overview of what will be available with IKS Alpha. Read more about the IKS Alpha Development.

FactStore

One of the core features of the IKS is the handling of entities as they approach in some content. But to get real benefit from a semantic system, it needs to handle the relations between entities. Such a relation is called a "fact" about two or more entities. The relation person A is a friend of person B can be stored as a 2-ary fact: "friendOf(A, B)". The IKS FactStore is a component to store facts about entities. Additionally, the FactStore can be queried for single plus combinations of facts. By combining two or more facts one is able to reason new knowledge about the participating entities.

The IKS FactStore is document in the FactStore Specification and an implementation is provided as part of the Apache Stanbol software project.