Welcome to Knowledge Base project !
The Knowledge Base
It is not just another ‘knowledge base’. We are proposing our members a knowledge base developed with cooperatives and cooperation in mind.
The Knowledge Base is a unique opportunity for the cooperative movement worldwide to capitalize on its 5th principle: providing education, training and information to the public. The design also fosters cooperation between cooperatives and new global networks with key actors like universities, local authorities and civil society organizations interested in cooperatives.
Funding and collaborations
This open-source software has been built in collaboration with Cooperatives Europe, through the #coops4dev initiative and the two associated mentoring programs GCE and CoopStarter.
This software has been co-funded by the European Union. The contents of this software are the sole responsibility of Cooperatives Europe and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union.
The technology used : Startin'blox
Startin'blox is a technology based of the last stardards of the web that provide free, modular and easy-to-use tools to build decentralized application.
It's a front framework composed of web components which welcome raw data sources in RDF, the basic language of semantic web.
That's mean that all the data received are interoperable and can be share and use from any interface.
Learn Startin'blox
We are working on a new technology that raises complex issues, but our approach is to make it as simple as possible to use.
- Have a look on our general documentation
- Come the our community chat to ask your unanswered questions
- Open issues to identify opportunities for improvement
Finally, the maintainers of the project are here for you :
- Benoit - benoit@startinblox.com
- Alice - alice@startinblox.com
The documentation is still under development. If it hasn't allowed you to find your answers, come and tell us, your feedback is precious :) Thanks!
How does it work ?
All the Knowledge base application has been developed in Startin'blox. In this application, we've developed a standalone component that retrieves the resource and which can be integrated in any interface and plugged to the Knowledge Base federation.
In deed, this component is composed of two part :
To implement them, have a look to the documentation of the Search Component.
Message from the maintainers of the project
When we started Knowledge Base project, we were on the 0.8 version of the core of the framework. So we've patch a lot of things on the application to get the fonctionnement needed. As we were patching, we were telling to the framework team all we were doing. At the end of the project, many of our feedbacks were duly noted and had served to release the 0.9 version.
If we have had the 0.9 at the start of the project, development would have been so much faster! It's the game of innovation.
We want to inform you about this little history so that you won't be surprised to see tips and tricks, we've coded that are now a thing of the past for Startin'blox technology.
It would be interesting to rewrite the code in light of the latest improvements of the framework.
If the job tempts you, contact us. We'll do everything we can to give you all the marbles you need ;)
Thanks!