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1 All copyrights of this article are held by the author/s To cite this publication we suggest to use the APA (American Psychological Association) standard: [Author s Last Name, Initials, (year), Title of work. Retrieved month, day, year, from source.] You downloaded this document for free from the The NetAcademy is an internet research platform organizing the accumulation, dissemination and review of scientific research and publications world wide. For any use of this document which is not strictly private, scholarly work, please contact the NetAcademy editors respectively the MCM institute at the below address. The NetAcademy NA.editors@netacademy.org The NetAcademy project has been developed at the Institute for Media and Communications Management MCM University of St. Gallen Blumenbergplatz 9 CH 9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland

2 Salome Schmid-Isler: The NetAcademy project. Report for the World Summit on the Information society, Geneva The NetAcademy A platform for academic knowledge management Salome Schmid-Isler Institute for Media and Communications Mangaement University of St. Gallen CONTENT 1 THE NETACADEMY, OVERVIEW COMPETENCE OF THE NETACADEMY ORIGIN, OBJECTIVES AND MANAGEMENT OF THE NETACADEMY SOME FIGURES ABOUT THE NETACADEMY POLICY, TECHNICAL OVERVIEW AND PARTICIPATION CONDITIONS OF THE NETACADEMY THE NETACADEMY: A CLOSE-UP VIEW THE TECHNICAL POINT OF VIEW The NetAcademy s federated system The NetAcademy s modular architecture Lessons learned from the NetAcademy s technology THE CONTENT MANAGEMENT POINT OF VIEW Three predominant requirements for quality The semantic triangle Lessons learned from the NetAcademy s content management REFERENCES TEXT REFERENCES PUBLICATIONS ABOUT THE NETACADEMY PROJECT...14

3 Salome Schmid-Isler: The NetAcademy project. Report for the World Summit on the Information society, Geneva The NetAcademy, overview 1.1 Competence of the NetAcademy The NetAcademy [ is an open internet based platform which accumulates, reviews, structures and publishes academic research from the scientific community worldwide. The platform called the NetAcademy universe clusters various independent NetAcademy units each called an own NetAcademy instance dedicated to a specific research area. Such a NetAcademy instance structures its contents by means of one or several out of five NetAcademy modules. The available modules are 1 : Classic knowledge management (the standard module), Project management, E-Learning, Academic journal publishing Conference management 1.2 Origin, objectives and management of the NetAcademy The concept of the NA platform has been developed by Beat F. Schmid, professor of information management (IWI) of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and is continuously developed by his Institute for Media and Communications Management (MCM) of the University of St. Gallen, founded His objectives were (1) to publish and network his institute s research in the field of the new media, and (2) to hereby investigate in general the potential of such platforms regarding the benefit for global academic research, knowledge management, and e-learning. The NetAcademy is a long-term project meant to develop continuously. The strategy of the NetAcademy stakeholders is to build up a common open source online handbook representing worldwide academic research, and to achieve this by 1 For further questions and availability please contact: informationobjects AG, St. Gallen, Switzerland [

4 Salome Schmid-Isler: The NetAcademy project. Report for the World Summit on the Information society, Geneva cooperation and alignment with similar networks of scientific communities. Their objective is to structure the different contents in an interdisciplinary manner, maintaining thereby the encompassing semantic and the editorial characteristics of each research community. The NetAcademy is managed by the Institute for Media and Communications Management (MCM) of the University of St. Gallen 2 ; it is hosted by the informationobjects AG in St.Gallen 3 ; it is a non-profit project mainly sponsored by the MCM institute and by commercial cooperation partners such as the Bertelsmann foundation and the Heinz Nixdorf foundation. 1.3 Some figures about the NetAcademy NetAcademy universe was launched in March 1997 with 4 different research communities. In 2003 it hosts 8 NetAcademy instances, about E-Commerce [ (community founded in 1989), The International Journal of Electronic Markets (edition since 1991), Knowledge Management [ (community founded in 1994), Media Management [ (community founded in 1997), Communication Management [ (community founded in 1999), The International Journal on Media Management [ (edition since 1999), The NetAcademy Press [ (editions since 2000), Digital product design [ (community founded in 1999, online since 2002) Intelligent software [ (community founded in 2002), 2 Contact: [na.editors@netacademy.org] 3 Compare with footnote 1. Contact: [info@informationobjects.com]

5 Salome Schmid-Isler: The NetAcademy project. Report for the World Summit on the Information society, Geneva Access: The visitors statistics show a monthly average of 500'000 hits, 250'000 page (html) downloads and 52'000 visits. Regions: About 50% of the visitors access from US domains (.edu,.gov,.com), 20% from numeric (academic) IP addresses, 10% from network providers (inktomisearch, googlebot, etc.), the rest mainly from European countries (.ch,.de., uk., nl.,...). 1.4 Policy, technical overview and participation conditions of the NetAcademy The Netacademy language is English although quite some of the downloadable documents are written in German. Download is for free ( registration requested) except for some of the articles belonging to the online journals (subscription requested). The NetAcademy pursues academic goals, displays no commercials and keeps the data of its registered users strictly private. The NetAcademy was based on Lotus Notes technology Since its complete relaunch in 2002, the platform uses PHP4, HTML and CSS2.0 for the web front end, SML / XHTML for content management and the exchange of meta data between the different NetAcademy instances, and is based on the relational data base solution MySQL for data keeping; the exchange server relies on Java technology. Editing and administration is managed 100% browser based. The NetAcademy opens its source code for the Open Source Community for a broad further development. How to participate? Each interested community with a sound scientific background (university, research institute, corporate university and similar) is invited to join a NetAcademy community or to open its own NetAcademy instance. Contact [salome.schmid-isler@unisg.ch] or informationobjects AG St. Gallen. 2 The NetAcademy: A close-up view The NetAcademy [ was intended, from its inception (online launch 1997), to pursue two objectives:

6 Salome Schmid-Isler: The NetAcademy project. Report for the World Summit on the Information society, Geneva To contribute from a technical point of view to the development of the new information and communication technology (ICT), and To contribute a successful content management system respectively a knowledge management system to serve the requirements of today s ICT. 2.1 The technical point of view The Internet technology provides a new communication and information storage system, and the NetAcademy platform organizes an interaction space based thereon. The NetAcademy fosters academic communication and cooperation, with the goal to eventually create a living handbook on scientific research, directed by a common logic and intelligible protocol [9]. The NetAcademy is an internet based network for distributed online research communities [10]. Each instance manages its own research area, some with a narrow focus, some with a large one, some in a rather hierarchical, some in a more open manner, but all using the same templates for content management. The respective communities either gather in a NA instance (i.e. a domain name), or they subdivide into a cluster of associated, more specialized research communities, whereof they may eventually split and open a new NA instance. All instances can be accessed directly or coming from the NetAcademy homepage ( The NetAcademy has a federated structure [11]. All community instances, large and small, are connected with the exchange server (the NA homepage, called NA Universe) and thereby with each other, in order to align their findings with the holistic research progress. A NetAcademy instance can be built on modules, be it just one, or be it a cluster of different modules. The platform offers a range of compatible pre-designed modules for different academic purposes.

7 Salome Schmid-Isler: The NetAcademy project. Report for the World Summit on the Information society, Geneva The NetAcademy s federated system The NetAcademy is a federation of autonomous NetAcademy instances, each of which pursues an own field of research interest. Each NetAcademy instance is managed independently. It consists in one or in a choice of service modules which can be clustered according to individual requirements, and can be installed, edited and hosted by any (distributed) academic research group at a place they prefer. Fig. 1: The federated system with the NA Universe, the NA instances, and a NA cluster Every NetAcademy instance is connected with the NetAcademy exchange server (the NetAcademy homepage domain) which takes up new content of each NA instance, replicates it in 24 hours periods, and instills it to the other NA instances (about the according knowledge management, see section 2.2.). This federated system guarantees each NA instance an autonomy but offers to combine its content as entity or in parts, which can be chosen with other NetAcademy instances. Each NA instance establishes its content according to its own organizational principles. Each NA instance manages its proper quality standards, in full transparency, thereby

8 Salome Schmid-Isler: The NetAcademy project. Report for the World Summit on the Information society, Geneva enabling a proper quality alignment of content across all NetAcademy instances (about the problems arising of this alignment, see 2.3) The NetAcademy s modular architecture The NetAcademy s modular architecture enables any organization to establish its own NetAcademy instance by assorting its profile out of a wide range of ready made components. The types of platforms for scientific knowledge management are NA classic instance, a module for institutes, competence centers, for presentation of scientific results (currently there are 6 active classic modules), NA journal instance, a module for learned journal online publishing (currently there are 2 active journal modules), NA project management, a module for controlling and communication of academic projects, e.g. EU projects, their access is restricted (currently there are 2 active project management modules), NA conference, a module for online organization of conferences and workshops (currently, there is only a prototype), NA elearning, a module for e-based learning and teaching (currently there are 2 active classic modules). Each NetAcademy instance is built around a starter module which is the classic module. This module manages logic by the semantic triangle (see section ). Fig. 2: The current modules, at disposal to be combined in one NA instance

9 Salome Schmid-Isler: The NetAcademy project. Report for the World Summit on the Information society, Geneva Lessons learned from the NetAcademy s technology The lessons learned about how to develop an internet based platform for the benefit of the scientific community worldwide are, in a nutshell: Proprietary technologies must be avoided, otherwise the aspired alignment of research results and processes is impeded. (Although we highly estimated the security offered by Lotus Notes technology, we went the way to shareware, to open source.) Access should basically be for free, and administration / editing of contents should be possible 100% browser based, otherwise the mostly highly mobile stakeholders become annoyed. Sharing and cooperating is the motto, not competition. 2.2 The content management point of view Today we look back at millennia of experience since knowledge was entrusted to writing, and at centuries since we have it disseminated by books and then by journals. Just about a decade went by with online publishing experience. Today, knowledge literally explodes into the internet, though terribly mixed with all sorts of digital genres (advertisements, clip art, , search services and other). Now we have the information overload basically not more information, but more information available at the same time, unstructed. As, in the past, libraries and information management systems had to learn how to organize their contents in the real world, we are to organize the same in the realm of the new media. Although in the last couple of years many endeavors have been undertaken to create categorization, the problem about how to ascertain relevance of online information is still not solved in a satisfactory way. The NetAcademy proposes, for knowledge management, (1) The classic academic logic and processing of contents, (2) The 3R-requirements for documents/services (see below section), and

10 Salome Schmid-Isler: The NetAcademy project. Report for the World Summit on the Information society, Geneva (3) The semantic triangle for the coherence between originator, product/document and meta classification (theme) Three predominant requirements for quality We can label the well-known preeminent problems about quality in online knowledge management as the 3R -requirements [12], which are: Retrieval: How can information be found? Search engines and catalogs find lots of digitized information objects, but which one is the required one, the one which is useful? Libraries, information management, have lead a way to targeted retrieval in the real (paper based) world. The intellectual editorial work which provided semantics there cannot be easily deferred to software solutions. Rating: What makes information trustworthy? Retrieved data generally have no spanning and authoritative identification regarding quality, authenticity, or up-to-dateness of a document s content. How to ascertain that the document found offers authentic information, is true according to academic standards? Quality criteria to artifacts or services are bestowed by communities. On the internet, mostly the community which should sustain the retrieved information is not in reach. Reliability: Information must remain citable. Citation of information found on the internet is still not as trustworthy as it should be, because knowing the access date of a source does not ensure the retrieved data will persist to be accessible there, nor is ensured that the data will not suffer from corruption. The citation must be, and remain, checkable by reviewers. Although internet archive sites, as e.g. [ pursue a worthily task, they conserve only a part of data, and parts of time span. The NetAcademy s answer regarding retrieval profits from a thematically confined information repository. The focus of each NA instance is quite clear, accordingly the

11 Salome Schmid-Isler: The NetAcademy project. Report for the World Summit on the Information society, Geneva types of retrieved documents becomes obvious. Rating is a refined and well displayed characteristic of the platform, it ranges from international double blind peer review processes and a back-up of renowned editorial board members to open community internal reviews. The thus different quality processes and the editorial responsibilities are disclosed in the respective NA instances and documents. Reliability is paid considerable attention though the answer is not gong beyond responsible archiving activities and networking with other online repositories (some NA instances are networked with organizations providing additional abstract indexes and web based intermediary services). In the case of the journal modules, parallel paper based publishing is a valid solution. Still, the the 3R -requirements deal with selected points of quality. They basically refer to quality of documents (or services). But such are the produce of a community, they are embedded in the communication and transaction processes which also include the roles of producers / originators and the logic of the context, i.e. terminology and understanding quality not as attribute for itself, but quality as a declaration within a context. The logic and protocol which rules interaction in a community is the encompassing guideline, the 3R must be combined with the semantic relation between originator, product, and meta classification (see section on semantic triangle) The semantic triangle Knowledge management in the NetAcademy Universe is rooted in the inherent protocol which steers all scientific research (see introduction and section 2.3.). It is however desirable that IT sustains this protocol as much as possible. Therefore, in each NA instance, a logic triangle is rooted, referring to the basic principle that knowledge is (1) externalized in a document or similar, which has

12 Salome Schmid-Isler: The NetAcademy project. Report for the World Summit on the Information society, Geneva (2) an author who is responsible of the content described in the document, and (3) a meta description for both which classifies the content into an encompassing reference system. (1) to (3) is modeled in coherent triangle which is prescribed by the NA classic module templates, furnishing the semantics between publication / publication database, author / expert database, research field / glossary (keyword) database. The triangle reflects a triangle of most often posed questions in academic research, see figure below: Fig. 3: The logic triangle rooted in the NA s classic module Besides this triangle structure, the classic module of course adds further services such as conference calendar, news, contact, search, submit, vote and discussion sections. Another issue of knowledge management is the alignment of content from different communities for display in the entire NA Universe. We have already referred to the exchange server which enlarges the knowledge body of every NA instance by instilling externally created semantic triangles (i.e. keywords, authors, publications). The challenge here is to avoid misunderstandings and chaos, to avoid the www s information overload of unstructured information. Currently, the platform aligns

13 Salome Schmid-Isler: The NetAcademy project. Report for the World Summit on the Information society, Geneva additional information with the one which is already there just by remaining identifiable as the result of the research of community X which is basically the traditional encyclopedic protocol. The below example shows the outcome of a search regarding the definition of the term information. The catalogue offers all definitions generated by the research community at hand (which in our example is the NA instance on Media Management) and also offers the definitions about information available from all the other communities of the NA Universe (see fig. below). Fig. 4: Alignment of internal and external keyword definitions. Example keyword information. Left: Search within one instance. Right: Search the across all NA instances Lessons learned from the NetAcademy s content management The lessons learned about knowledge management in this platform are, in a nutshell: Quality is the produce of a community. A community is largely recognizable by its interaction protocol. Interaction protocols can be formalized. Knowledge of different communities can be aligned if their interaction protocol are formalized, by means of a meta protocol.

14 Salome Schmid-Isler: The NetAcademy project. Report for the World Summit on the Information society, Geneva We see that communities recognize and develop their identity according to a common protocol of interaction and understand that identity seems to be created just as much by a common protocol (format, form) of interaction than by a common theme (content, topic). 3 References 3.1 Text references [1] The academic concept reconsidered: Plato, Leibniz, Xanadu and the NetAcademy. By Schmid, Beat, Schmid-Isler, Salome (Working paper, 1998) [ [2] Das NetAcademy Projekt. Kontext und Ziele. By Schmid, Beat (Working paper, 1997) [ [3] The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. By Rheingold, Howard (2000) MIT Press, 2000 [4] Reasoning about Knowledge. By Fagin R., Halpern J.Y., Moses Y., Vardi M.Y. (1995) MIT Press, Cambridge Massachusetts 1995 [5] Interaction Ritual. Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior. By Goffman, Erving (1967) Achor Books, Doubleday & Co. Inc. Garden City, New York 1967 [6] A Global Knowledge Medium as a Virtual Community - The NetAcademy Concept. By Lincke, David-Michael, Schubert, Petra (1998) (Proceedings of the AIS Annual Americas Conference on Information Systems, Baltimore Maryland, August 1998) [7] Gemeinschaften in Neuen Medien: Das Projekt NetAcademy. By Wittig, Dörte (1999) In: Engelien, M., Homann, J. (Hrsg.): Gemeinschaften in Neuen Medien, Lohmar, Köln: Josef Eul Verlag, [8] Elektronische Märkte. By Schmid, Beat (2000): In: R. Weiber (Hrg.): Handbuch Electronic Business: Informationstechnologien - Electronic Commerce - Geschäftsprozesse. Gabler Verlag Wiesbaden, Sept (pp )

15 Salome Schmid-Isler: The NetAcademy project. Report for the World Summit on the Information society, Geneva [9] Vor- und Nachteile verschiedener Suchmethoden und das Beispiel eines Attributbasierten Suchsystems. By Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina, Hombrecher, Alexis (Working paper 1998) [ [10] The Learning Community Platform By Mayr, Peter, Seufert, Sabine (2001) In: Wagner, E., Kindt, M. (Hrg.): Virtueller Campus - Szenarien, Strategien, Studium. Münster: Waxmann Verlag, [ [11] Structuring and Systemizing Knowledge - Realizing the Encyclopedia Concept as a Knowledge Medium, By Lechner, Ulrike, Schmid-Isler, Salome, Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina (1999) In: Proceedings of the IRMA - Information Resources Management Association Conference -"Information Technology in Libraries", May 1999, Hershey, USA [12] Retrieval, Rating and Reliability - How to establish RRR Standards on the Internet? By Schmid-Isler, Salome, Selz, Dorian, Wittig, Doerte (1998) Presented at the First European Conference on Information Quality and Knowledge, 1998, Univesity of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Working paper. [ 3.2 Publications about the NetAcademy project All below cited publications can be downloaded for free from the NetAcademy 4 : 2003 Sense of identity in online communities, based on interaction protocols. Theory and practice, working paper. By Schmid, Beat F., Schmid-Isler, Salome. (Shortened version to be presented at the 37th International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS '2004), Hawaii, January 2004) 2003 Die NetAcademy on Media Management und das JMM the International Journal on Media Management. Schlussbericht Phase 7 (definitive Positionierung, 2002) und Abschlussbericht ( ) zhd. der Stiftungen, by Schmid-Isler, Salome; Mierzejewska, Bozena I., Ma The Unique Selling Propositions of the NetAcademy, by Schmid-Isler, Salome. Institute for Media and Communications Management, University of St. Gallen, December Marketingstrategien und -modelle für den Aufbau und Betrieb wissenschaftlicher Online-Communities am Beispiel der NetAcademy, by Andys, Thomasz (Diplomarbeit). Universität St. Gallen, Ein Glossar für die NetAcademy - Issue 4/2001 by Schmid, Beat F., Schmid-Isler, Salome (editors). Institute for Media and Communications Management, University of St. Gallen, December [

16 Salome Schmid-Isler: The NetAcademy project. Report for the World Summit on the Information society, Geneva Das Projekt NetAcademy on Media Management Schlussbericht der Phase 6 (Professionalisierung) zhd. der Stiftungen (Januar-Dezember 2001), by Schmid-Isler, Salome; Mierzejewska, Bozena I., April 1, Ein Glossar für die NetAcademy - Issue 3/2000, by Schmid, Beat F.; Eppler, Martin J.; Lechner, Ulrike; Schmid-Isler, Salome B.; Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina; Will, Markus; Zimmermann, Hans-Dieter Institute for Media and Communications Management, University of St. Gallen, May The Learning Community Platform "MBA on NetAcademy", by Mayr, Peter; Seufert, Sabine, in: E., Wagner, M. Kindt (Hrg.): Virtueller Campus - Szenarien, Strategien, Studium. Münster: Waxmann Verlag, MBA on NetAcademy as a Reference Model for Media-Supported Higher Education, by Mayr, Peter; Gerhard, Julia; Seufert, Sabine, in: Proceedings to the ED-MEDIA Conference, Tampere, June 25-30, Classroom Component of an Online Learning Community - Case Study of an MBA Program at the University of St. Gallen, by Gerhard, Julia; Mayr, Peter, Seufert, Sabinein: Proceedings fo the IRMA Conference Toronto, May 20-22, 2001, published in: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (ed.): Web-Based Instruction Learning, IRM Press, Hershey, PA Building a Strong MBA Community - The Integration of Various Learning Modes on the NetAcademy Platform,.by Gerhard, Julia, in: The 20th ICDE World Conference, April 1-5, Das Projekt NetAcademy on Media Management Schlussbericht der Phase 5 (Community Building) zhd. der Stiftungen (Januar-Dezember 2000), by Schmid-Isler, Salome; Wittig, Dörte, 1. April Ein Glossar für die NetAcademy - Issue 2/1999, by Schmid, Beat F.; Eppler, Martin J.; Lechner, Ulrike; Schmid-Isler, Salome B.; Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina; Will, Markus; Zimmermann, Hans-Dieter Institute for Media and Communications Management, University of St. Gallen, June Die NetAcademy als Medium für die Learning Community eines Masterprogramms, by Seufert, Sabine, Schubert, Petra, in: Engelien, Martin; Homann, Jens (Hrsg.), GeNeMe99 - Gemeinschaften in Neuen Medien, Lohmar, Köln: Josef Eul Verlag, 1999., 06/ Das Projekt NetAcademy on Media Management Schlussbericht der Phase 4 (Online Publishing) zhd. der Stiftungen (Januar-Dezember 1999), by Schmid-Isler, Salome ; Wittig, Dörte, 10. März Gemeinschaften in Neuen Medien: Das Projekt NetAcademy, by Wittig, Dörte, in: Engelien, Martin; Homann, Jens (Hrsg.), GeNeMe99 - Gemeinschaften in Neuen Medien, Lohmar, Köln: Josef Eul Verlag, 1999, 06/99. English version available: New media communities: The NetAcademy project 1999 The NetAcademy - Managing Internet Peer Review Process in a Multi-agent Framework, by Yu, Lei; Schmid, Beat F. International Joint Conference on Artificial

17 Salome Schmid-Isler: The NetAcademy project. Report for the World Summit on the Information society, Geneva Intelligence (IJCAI) Workshop BUS-2: Intelligent Workflow and Process Management: The New Frontier for AI in Business - Stockholm, August 1-2, 1999, 08/ A Conceptual Framework for Agent Oriented and Role Based Workflow Modelling, by Yu, Lei; Schmid, Beat F. Presented at the CaiSE Workshop on Agent Oriented Information Systems (AOIS 99) - Heidelberg, June Structuring and Systemizing Knowledge - Realizing the Encyclopedia concept on Internet, by Ulrike Lechner, Salome Schmid-Isler, Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva, presented at the IRMA Information Resources Management Association Conference "Information Technology in Libraries", Hershey, May The NetAcademy Chronicle 98, by Schmid-Isler, Salome B.; Selz, Dorian; Lincke, David-Michael; Wittig, Dörte Project report 2 (1998), spring Electronic Commerce und Tele-Dienste des akademischen online-journals "EM - Electronic Markets", by Brigette Buchet, Dorian Selz, Salome Schmid-Islerprizewinning project report for INTEGRATA competition '99, Tübingen 1999 Web Assessment - Measuring the Effectiveness of Electronic Commerce Sites Going Beyond Traditional Marketing Paradigms, by Petra Schubert, Dorian Selz, presented at the 32th International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS '99), Hawaii, Jan 5-8, Logic for Media - The Computational Media Metaphor, by Schmid, Beat F.; Lechner, UlrikePresented at the 32th International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS '99), Hawaii, Jan 5-8, Das Projekt NetAcademy on Media Management Schlussbericht der Phase 3 (Ausbau) zhd. der Stiftungen (April-Dezember 1998), by Schmid-Isler, Salome ; Wittig, Dörte, 30. Januar Retrieval, Rating and Reliability - How to establish RRR Standards on the Internet, by Salome Schmid-Isler, Dorian Selz, Dörte Wittig. Presented at the First European Half-Day Conference on Information Quality and Knowledge, 3rd of December 1998, mcm institute, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Sept Efficient Information Retrieval: Tools for Knowledge Management, by Katarina Stanoevska, Alexis Hombrecher, Siegfried Handschuh, Beat Schmid. Presented at The Fifth European Research Workshop on Electronic Markets, Brunel University, Uxbridge, London, Sept The NetAcademy: A Novel Approach to Domain-Specific Scientific Knowledge Acculumation, Dissemination and Review, By Beat Schmid, Petra Schubert, Dorian Selz, David Lincke, in: Proceedings of the 32st HICSS Conference, Hawaii, Jan Organizational Design of an IT-based Knowledge System: The NetAcademy Concept, by Petra Schubert, Dorian Selz, in: Proceedings of the 31st HICSS Conference, Hawaii, Jan The NetAcademy Chronicle'97, by Salome Schmid-Isler, Petra Schubert, David Lincke, Dorian Selz.Project report 1 ( ), summer 1998

18 Salome Schmid-Isler: The NetAcademy project. Report for the World Summit on the Information society, Geneva Supporting Distributed Corporate Planning through New CoordinationTechnologies, by Beat F. Schmid, Katarina Stanoevska, Lei Yu. International Workshop on Coordination Technologies, Vienna, August 24-28, 1998, in conjuction with 9th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA'98, August A Global Knowledge Medium as a Virtual Community - The NetAcademy Concept, by David-Michael Lincke, Beat F. Schmid, Petra Schubert. Proceedings of the AIS Annual Americas Conference on Information Systems, Baltimore Maryland, August Die ökonomische Bedeutung und die technischen Möglichkeiten der Online- Kommunikation, by Beat F. Schmid. Nationale Schweizerische UNESCO- Kommission, Bern, Juli Knowledge Media: An Innovative Concept and Technology for Knowledge Management in the Information Age, by Beat F. Schmid, Katarina Stanoevska. Beyond Convergence, 12th Biennal International Telecommunications Society Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, June 21-24, Die Konzepte der erweiterten Semantik Ein Beitrag zur Entwicklung von Wissensmedien, by Rolf Grütter. Zeitschrift Informatik, S , June The NetAcademy - A New Concept for Online Publishing and Knowledge Management, by: Beat F. Schmid, Petra Schubert, Dorian Selz, Katarina Stanoevska, Siegfried Handschuh, David-Michael Lincke, Ulrike LechnerProceedings of the ACOS 98 Workshop (International Workshop on Advanced Communication Services) which was held in conjunction with the ETAPS 98 Conference (1st European Joint Conference on Theory and Practice of Software) in Lisboa, Portugal, April 29 - May 4, 1998, April Ein Glossar für die NetAcademy, by Beat F. Schmid, Salome B. Schmid-Isler, Katarina Stanoevska, Patrick Stähler, Rolf Grütter. Institute for Media and Communications Management, University of St. Gallen, March Vor- und Nachteile verschiedener Suchmethoden und das Beispiel eines attributbasierten Suchsystems, by Katarina Stanoevska, Alexis Hombrecher. Working Paper, March The academic concept reconsidered: Platon, Leibniz, Xanadu and the NetAcademy, By Schmid, Beat, Schmid-Isler, Salome (Working paper, 1998). NA working paper, March Das Projekt NetAcademy on Media Management. Schlussbericht der Phase 2 (Entwicklung) zhd. der Stiftungen (Oktober 1997-März 1998), by Salome Schmid- Isler, 30. April Das NetAcademy Projekt. Die Idee, by Beat F. Schmid, Konzeptpapier, Januar Potentials and Limits of Information- and Communications Technology (ICT), by Beat F. Schmid.Paper presented at: Reengineering R&D Processes, Symposium, Feburary 20-21, 1997, University of St. Gallen, Februar 1997

19 Salome Schmid-Isler: The NetAcademy project. Report for the World Summit on the Information society, Geneva The NetAcademy Project, by Beat Schmid, Salome Schmid-Islerin: International Journal of Electronic Markets, 1/97, Februar Das NetAcademy Projekt. Kontext und Ziele, by Beat F. Schmid, Konzeptpapier, Juni The NetAcademy Project: A new concept in scientific knowledge accumulation and dissemination, by Beat F. Schmid, Petra Schubert, Dorian Selz, David-Michael Lincke Proceedings of the 4th Conference of the International Society for Decision Support Systems (ISDSS'97), July 21-22, 1997, Lausanne, Switzerland, July Konzeption, Architektur und prototypische Implementierung eines quantorbasierten elektronischen Produktkatalogs in Java, by Siegfried Handschuh. Forschungsarbeit für die Universität St.Gallen, August Die Benutzung des Internet zur Unterstützung der Forschung am Beispiel des Medienmanagements, by David Riegelnig, Master thesis / Diplomarbeit, Institut für Wirtschftsinformatik IWI4, Universität St. Gallen, Sept Swiss HIV Cohort Study (SHCS) Web: Feasibility Study Phase-end Report, by Rolf Grütter, Walter Fierz, Laurence Jeannerod, Martin Rickenbach. Forschungsarbeit für das MCM-Institut der Universität St. Gallen für Wirtschafts-, Rechts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Dezember Das Projekt NetAcademy on Media Management. Schlussbericht der Phase 1 (Prototyp) zhd. der Stiftungen (April-Sept. 1997), by Salome Schmid-Isler, 30. September Representation and automatic evaluation of empirical, especially quantitative knowledge, by Beat F. Schmid, Georg Geyer, René Schmid. Abschlussbericht des SNF Projektes Nr , Mai/Juni Knowledge Media: Concepts, Technologies and Organizational Impact, by Georg Geyer, Katarina Stanoevska.In: PAKM '96, Proceedings of the First International Conference, Volume II, Basel, Switzerland, Oktober Enhancing numeric processing with semantics for World-Wide-Web based applications, by Christoph Kuhn, Lei Yu. Forschungsarbeit für das Kompetenzzentrum Enterprise Knowledge Medium, Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, 1996, erschienen in IM HSG/CCEKM/11, 01/ Projekt "NetAcademy", by Beat Schmid, Salome Schmid-Isler. Aus dem Jahresbericht 1996 des Instituts für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Universität St. Gallen, erschienen März 1997

20 Salome Schmid-Isler: The NetAcademy project. Report for the World Summit on the Information society, Geneva Metadata (German / English) Organisationsporträt PROJEKT The NetAcademy ABKÜRZUNG NetAcademy NA ADRESSE KOMPLETT NetAcademy, Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationsmanagement, MCM-HSG, Blumenbergplatz 9, 9000 Universität St. Gallen Tel Fax na.editors@netacademy.org salome.schmid-isler@netacademy.org WEB SITES STRATEGIE Ziel des NetAcademy Projektes ist es, Forschung und Lehre in internetbasierten Gemeinschaften zu verknüpfen. Mitglieder einer Lerngemeinschaft können Studierende, Dozierende, Tutoren, Forscher, Praktiker und sonstige Experten darstellen, die ein gemeinsames Interesse an bestimmten Wissen und Lerninhalten haben. Die NetAcademy stellt ein Projekt an der Schnittstelle von E-Learning und Wissensmanagement dar. Strategie der NetAcademy Entwickler ist es, mit ähnlichen Netzwerken akademischer Wissensgemeinschaften ein gemeinsames open source online Handbook der akademischen Forschung aufzubauen. Dabei sollen (anders als im WWW) die unterschiedlichen Inhalte semantisch und redaktionell so strukturiert werden, dass der Datenaustausch zunehmend widerspruchsfrei und sinnstiftend wird. STRATEGY It is the goal of the NetAcademy platform to align research and teaching in internet based communities. Members of such communities can be students, lecturers, tutors, researchers, managers and other experts which have a common interest in particular fields of knowledge and teaching. It is the strategy of the NetAcademy deelopers to build, with other scientific communities, a joint network of excellence on the internet, thus to contribute to a global open source online handbook on academic knowledge. The challenge is to add the data semantics and editorial quality in such a way that merging content of different sources becomes ever more consistent and meaningful, not less (as it is the case in today s www) Personenporträt Schmid-Isler Salome Dr. phil., Projektleiterin NetAcademy am MCM Institut der Universität St. Gallen, Lehrbeauftragte der Universität St. Gallen