Summary
The current World Wide Web (WWW) is, by its function, the syntactic web where structure of the content has been presented while the content itself is inaccessible to computers. The next generation of the Web (the Semantic Web) aims to alleviate such problem and provide specific solutions targeted the concrete problems. The Web resources will be much easier and more readily accessible by both human and computers with the added semantic information in a machine-understandable and machine-processable fashion. There is, however, still a long way to go to transfer the semantic web from an academic adventure into a technology provided by software industry. Supporting this transition process of Ontology technology from Academia to Industry is the main and major goal of Knowledge Web. Knowledge Web is funded as a Network of Excellence under European Commission 6th FP with a budget around 7M euros. It starts from January 2004 and runs for 4 years. Knowledge Web is co-ordinated by Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Contact: Hamish Cunningham (PI).
Project Objectives:
In a nutshell, it is the mission of Knowledge Web to strengthen the European software industry in one of the most important areas of current computer technology: Semantic web enabled eWork and eCommerce. Naturally, this includes education and research efforts to ensure the durability of impact and support of industry.
Our Role
Knowledge Web aims at integrating the results of research from related fields to provide joint education and promotional efforts, both in academia and industry. Our role is to act as a bridge for coordinating actions on human language technology and the Semantic Web. This includes joint efforts on all aspects of the network: industry (joint standard proposals), research (joint interest groups and workshops) and education (joint lectures). More specifically we are working on:
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