GI2MO

What GI2MO is

GI2MO is a project applying Semantic Web technologies to idea management, with a free, open-source system called Gi2MO IdeaStream. Users can keep unfinished ideas private, return to edit them, and publish them later. The system uses semantic metadata to connect idea-management data with assets from other systems and the wider web. The Gi2MO ontology provides a schema for describing resources gathered in idea-management systems, with the aim of making that data easier to publish and connect. IdeaStream supports administrator-defined taxonomies, multilingual interfaces through Drupal’s internationalization API, and browsing and filtering reviews subject to user permissions. Other project applications demonstrate analysis and visualization: IdeaStream Analytics groups similar ideas using term patterns and contextual information, including k-means clustering, while Idea Browser presents distributed RDF idea data in a bubble diagram. RDFme supports REST-based RDF/XML import and export for transferring idea data. GI2MO describes these applications as prototypes and showcases. A compatibility constraint is that Idea Browser’s current form has been tested only with RDF data encoded using the Gi2MO ontology. The project also invites inquiries about customizing IdeaStream and collaboration.