Proceedings of the 1st AKT Doctoral Symposium, June 2005 Held at the Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, Milton Keynes 14 June 2005 This work is supported under the Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC), which is sponsored by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council under grant number GR/N15764/01. The AKT IRC comprises the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Southampton and The Open University.