LTC KnowHow: Empowering the Social Enterprise in the Language Industry
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Description The “KnowHow” project, partly funded by the EU Research Executive Agency project scaled up the existing OrganiK Knowledge Management platform (http://www.organik-project.eu) from the research prototype it was into an industrial-grade knowledge management platform as a service (KM-PaaS) that supports social business applications. LTC’s role as a project partner was to produce a final product, which will support the social enterprise in the language industry (LI) and produced LTCKnowHow
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