This paper describes a knowledge-based
collaboration environment for ITIL [1] which is aimed
at making work of IT consultants dealing with
planning, designing and implementing ITIL processes
easier. The collaboration environment organizes work
of consultants around built-in ITIL concepts and
allows them to map and refine concepts for a
particular customer engagement.
The collaboration environment is designed as a socalled
domain wiki that has, in contrast to other wikis,
a pre-populated knowledge base built-in, which
actively guides further information gathering and
refinement as collaborative processes by consultants.
In this paper we present the design of a domain wiki
for ITIL. Common ITIL knowledge is modeled from a
subset of the ITIL publications and represented as an
RDF knowledge base. Inferences on this knowledge
base allow users to determine the aspects that need to
be refined by consultants for particular engagements.
Provided facts are then added to the knowledge base.
In ongoing research we investigate how such a
knowledge base can be established for the domain of
ITIL. One approach we take is a manual knowledge
engineering effort; another investigation is how text
analysis techniques can be used to automatically learn
facts from ITIL publications.