• Technical workpackages on ontology generation; metadata generation; ontology and metadata management; and ontology mediation; on access to semantically-enabled knowledge; besides a workpackage on integration of the resultant software components into a cohesive system.
• Workpackages to develop a methodology, for the introduction of semantic knowledge technologies into enterprises; and to develop the methodology and analysis techniques for the case studies.
• A workpackage for each of the three case studies themselves (e.g. in the legal domain and the telecoms industries).
• Workpackages on dissemination and exploitation; and training.
• A workpackage to undertake the technical management and a workpackage to undertake the overall consortium management.

Within each of these areas there are significant dependences, and there are also considerable dependencies across the areas.