Via Anant Jhingran blog, today I discovered MIKE2.0 (Method for an Integrated Knowledge Environment), a nice initiative from BearingPoint which aims to be a collaborative, open source methodology for Enterprise Information Management and to provide an organizing framework for Information Development:

MIKE2.0 is a comprehensive methodology that can be applied across a number of different projects within the Information Management space, including those that apply to: Information Governance, Data Quality Improvement, Data Integration, Data Migration (once-off batch migration and parallel runs), Data Warehousing, Master Data Management and IT Transformation.

I didn’t had time to review the wiki contents (I’ll do in the next few days ), but what I really appreciate is the fact that they are releasing most of their content using a Creative Commons license and that they are using a collaborative model. Quoting David Weinberger:

If You Love Your Information, Set It Free.

They encourage every information management professional to join this open source community, to fully participate in this effort and to let them know what you think about the intellectual property they have shared. So if your job is related to the IM field, take a look and share your opinions with them.

LogicaCMG has created a new site, called EPF Wiki, aimed to contain free software process descriptions, created using the Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) Composer, that everyone can edit using Wiki technology.

EPF Wiki is Wiki technology designed to be used together with Eclipse Process Framework (EPF). This offers the best of two distinct worlds: the worlds of powerful process frameworks and Wikis. It offers an process engineering infrastructure that combines a modular method construction approach and the flexibility and ease of use that is the defining characteristic of a Wiki.

EPF Wiki is an innovation that adds Wiki features to the hypertext process descriptions created with EPF Composer.

There is a discussion in epf-dev maillist about how Wikis can be accepted as a means of contributing as expected by the Eclipse organization, similar to Bugzilla and the official discussions lists.

This new site is considered an unofficial EPF community site, as this technology is still under Eclipse Legal Review, and it is not available as a download. It is planned to become available in the third quarter of 2007.

alphaWorks, the IBM emerging technologies portal, has launched today a new service: QEDWiki.

QEDWiki is “an environment that extends current wiki technology to enable rapid deployment, content aggregation, structured data, and powerful extensibility”.

QEDWiki can be used for a wide variety of Web applications, including, but not limited to, the following:

• Web content management for a typical collection of Wiki pages
• traditional form processing for database-oriented CRUD applications
• document-based collaboration
• rich interactive applications that bind together disparate services
• situational applications (or mash-ups)

Technology community is invited to actively collaborate and participate in the development and direction of this emerging technology, so give it a chance and try it now.

Although if you just want to see a demo, check this YouTube Video where David Barnes explains what is QEDWiki.