However, the amount of information available has made  it increasingly difficult to find, access, present and maintain  information. As a consequence, we are literally drowning in  information and starving for knowledge. Although knowledge is inherently strongly interconnected and related  to people, this interconnectedness is not reflected or supported by  current information infrastructures. The lack of interconnectedness  hampers basic information management, problem-solving and  collaboration capabilities like finding, creating and deploying the  right knowledge at the right time. Besides the creation of knowledge  through observation, networking of knowledge is the basic process to  generate new knowledge. The information value of networked knowledge  is often beyond the mere sum of the individual pieces. It is our central hypothesis that collaborative access to networked  knowledge assists humans, organisations and systems with their  individual as well as collective problem solving, leading to  innovation and increased productivity on individual, organisational  and global levels and enabling society to collaboratively tackle the  world’s problems. The semantic technologies are a cornerstone for  realizing Networked Knowledge and we present several technologies  developed by DERI which contibute to the overall goal of enabling  Networked Knowledge. 

Stefan Decker, DERIGalway (IE)
 

Manfred Hauswirth, DERIGalway (IE)