In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems ICEIS 2001, Setúbal, Portugal, July 7-10 2001, ISBN: 972-98050-2-4, Vol. 1 THE DECOR TOOLBOX FOR WORKFLOW-EMBEDDED ORGANIZATIONAL MEMORY ACCESS Andreas Abecker, Ansgar Bernardi German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), P.O. Box 2080, D-67608 Kaiserslautern, Germany Email: (aabecker,bernardi)@dfki.de Spyridon Ntioudis, Gregory Mentzas Information Management Unit, National Technical University of Athens, 9, Iroon Politexniou Str., 15780 Zografou, Greece Email:(dioudis,gmentzas)@softlab.ntua.gr Rudi Herterich, Christian Houy, Stephan Müller DHC Dr. Herterich & Consultants GmbH, Landwehrplatz 6-7, D-66111 Saarbrücken, Germany Email:(herterich,houy,mueller)@dhc-gmbh.com Maria Legal PLANET ERNST & YOUNG, Apollon Tower, 64 Louise Riencourt, Gr-115 23 Athens, Greece Email:mlegal@planetey.com Key words: organizational memory, ontology, workflow Abstract: We shortly motivate the idea of business-process oriented knowledge management (BPOKM) and sketch the basic approaches to achieve this goal. Then we describe the DECOR (Delivery of context-sensitive organisational knowledge) project which develops, tests, and consolidates new methods and tools for BPOKM. DECOR builds upon the KnowMore framework (Abecker et al 1998; Abecker et al 2000) for organizational memories (OM), but tries to overcome some limitations of this approach. In the DECOR project, three end-user environments serve as test-beds for validation and iterative improvement of innovative approaches to build: (1) knowledge archives organised around formal representations of business processes to facilitate navigation and access, (2) active information delivery services which - in collaboration with a workflow tool to support weakly- structured knowledge-intensive work - offer the user in a context-sensitive manner helpful information from the knowledge archive, and (3) methods for an organisation analysis from the knowledge perspective, required as supporting methods to design and introduce the former two systems In this paper, we present the basic modules of the DECOR toolkit and elaborate on their current status of development. This paper describes the two-years EC-funded RTD project DECOR (Delivery of Context-Sensitive Organisational Knowledge, Grant IST-1999-13002). The DECOR consortium consists of the following partners: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany; Planet ERNST & YOUNG S.A., Athens, Greece; Sema Group Belgium, Brussels, Belgium; DHC Dr. Herterich & Consultants GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany; IKA Social Security Institute, Athens, Greece; The National Technical University of Athens; Greece.