Royal Institute of Technology - KTH (Sweden)

URL: http://www.kth.se/eng/

The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm is Sweden’s largest technical university with first-class education and research. KTH was founded in 1827 and provides one-third of Sweden’s capacity for engineering studies and technical research at the post-secondary level. KTH has about 12000 full time students and 3500 employees and hosts about 1600 active post-graduate students.

The Knowledge Management Research group (KMR) is based at the School of Computer Science and Communication (CSC) at KTH. The KMR group is active within several international networks for technology enhanced learning and Semantic Web technology, notably PROLEARN and SIGSEMIS, as well as within the leading standards bodies for metadata and technology enhanced learning, such as IMS, IEEE, Dublin Core, ISO and CEN/ISSS. Through the Uppsala Learning Lab at Uppsala University, the KMR group is involved in the LUISA project, which uses Semantic Web Services to match learning needs with learning objects.

The KMR group provides internationally leading expertise in mixing and matching metadata standards, in keeping track of provenance, in fine-grained access control of metadata and individual- or group-centric metadata stores, as well as in creation, management and browsing of content repositories.

KTH will be mainly involved in the technical specification and system deployment work, leading the creation and deployment of the suite of tools for repository creation, population and management that will be offered to content producers. It will also specialize and contribute to the Web portal services such as concept-based browsing of content resources. KTH will be finally responsible for technically supporting the pilot evaluation and validation phases.

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