[announce] OASIS Member News- Mondeca European IST Prize Winner

[dee schur <dee.schur@oasis-open.org>]

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Mondeca European IST Prize Winner

Mondeca is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the European IST
Prize, the most distinguished award for groundbreaking products that
represent the best
of European innovation in information society technologies (IST).

437 innovative companies and institutions from 27 countries competed for
this year's prize. This is the highest number of participants since the
inception of
the Prize scheme in 1995. An evaluation group of high-level experts
selected the 20 best
applicants as winners of the European IST Prize in terms of the
criteria: technical
excellence, innovative content, potential market value and capacity to
generate new
jobs.

This official appreciation, at the highest levels, of Mondeca's efforts
complements the adoption, at the operational level, of Mondeca's
solution Intelligent
Topic Manager (ITM) by several major European industries.

Using the XML Topic Maps standard, Mondeca ITM is a generic knowledge
organization tool that, by mapping meaningful associations between all
relevant topics,
enables end-users to easily navigate and search distributed corporate
contents.

Mondeca is convinced that this formal and public recognition of its
knowledge management technology extends to and will therefore benefit
the whole topic maps
industry and
community.

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The European IST Prize Winners: http://www.ist-prize.org
The 2002 IST Event:  http://2002.istevent.cec.eu.int
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For further information contact:

Bernard Vatant
Consultant - Mondeca
www.mondeca.com
Chair - OASIS TM PubSubj Technical Committee
www.oasis-open.org/committees/tm-pubsubj/
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