Impact

Best practice documentation facilitates knowledge sharing. Basic data about the projects include topic, region and country, project partners, contact persons, year of project start and project Web site. For display of a Google Map the project location has to be added using geographic coordinates. Then, a free text input defines the rest of the page with suggested content sections "project description", "financing", "current status", "reached effects" and further information on the project.

The content structure makes it easy for the users to grasp the essential information about the projects. Links to pages for topics, project partners, and contact persons encourage further exploration of the wiki, the external link to a project Web site invites the users to go into further detail.

Track record of sharing

Cooperations with institutions in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and northern Italy will be aimed for.
In 2008, the Verwaltungskooperation recieved a jury recognition at the Austrian multimedia and e-business state award.

Lessons learnt

Lesson 1 - The use of a semantic wiki combines the power of semantic technologies with the ease of use of wikis.

Lesson 2 - The used software components, though mainly being in a beta stadium, show a sufficient stability for the aimed tasks.

Lesson 3 The platform aims to become the leading source on cooperation in public administration in Austria and other German speaking countries and is an example of the use of wikis for public administrations.