JoinIT-a knowledge trading development for the 21st century

TWI is a world-leading research and consultancy organization in the field of joining and allied technologies and has being developing knowledge trading concepts since 1995 in order to test and refine new mechanisms for the delivery of information and knowledge to its client base. Work carried out has involved association with a major center of telecommunications expertise and the development of an experimental knowledge-trading platform. The developments presented aim to collect and visualize data, information and knowledge in the fields of joining and allied technologies via an Internet platform for consumption by users in all industry sectors, with a range of security requirements. The key features of the experimental knowledge trading product (“JoinIT”) product are: ability to deliver both information and knowledge in the form of expertise over the whole range of TWI´s activity: joining, design, structural integrity, materials, equipment, quality, certification and training; and fulfilling the requirements of the “data hit” concept (right information, right user, right time, right cost and right context)