RE: [topicmapmail] Re: [topicmaps-comment] [announce] Mondeca European IST Prize Winner

["Bandholtz, Thomas" <Thomas.Bandholtz@koeln.sema.slb.com>]

Title: RE: [topicmapmail] Re: [topicmaps-comment] [announce] Mondeca European IST Prize Winner

Bernard,

congratulations and ... respect!

Thomas Bandholtz
Manager CM / KM
SchlumbergerSema
http://www.schlumbergersema.com

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D50679 Köln / Cologne
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murray Altheim [mailto:m.altheim@open.ac.uk]
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 1:29 PM
> To: Bernard Vatant
> Cc: TopicMapMail; topicmaps-comment
> Subject: [topicmapmail] Re: [topicmaps-comment] [announce] Mondeca
> European IST Prize Winner
>
>
> Bernard, Jean, et al,
>
> My hearty congratulations on this most impressive award, which I'm
> certain is well-deserved! I'm very happy for you all.
>
> Murray
>
> Bernard Vatant wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > The European IST Prize Winners: http://www.ist-prize.org
> > The 2002 IST Event:  http://2002.istevent.cec.eu.int
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Bernard Vatant
> > Consultant - Mondeca
> > www.mondeca.com
> > Chair - OASIS TM PubSubj Technical Committee
> > www.oasis-open.org/committees/tm-pubsubj/
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Murray
>
> ......................................................................
> Murray Altheim                  <http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/>
> Knowledge Media Institute
> The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK
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