Realizing the semantic web

Project Information

KNOWLEDGE WEB

Grant agreement ID: 507482

Project closed

Start date 1 January 2004

End date 31 December 2007

Funded under

• Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006).

Total cost No data

EU contribution € 6 700 000,00

Coordinated by

LEOPOLD-FRANZENS-UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK
Austria

Objective

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. It will have much higher impact on eWork and eCommerce as the current version of the web already had. Still, there is a long way to go 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 KnowledgeWeb.

This main goal naturally translates into three main objectives given the nature of such a transformation.
(1) Industry requires immediate support in tacking up this complex and new technology. Languages and interfaces need to be standardized to reduce the effort and provide scalability to solutions. Methods and use cases need to be provided to convince and to provide guidelines for how to work with this technology.
(2) Important support to industry is provided by developing high-class education in the area of semantic web, web services, and Ontologies.
(3) Research on Ontologies and the semantic web have not yet reached its goals. New areas such as the combination of semantic web with web services realizing intelligent web services require serious new research efforts.

Spoken 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.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › knowledge engineering › ontology
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › software
• social sciences › economics and business › business and management › commerce › e-commerce
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › internet › world wide web
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › internet › semantic web

Programme(s)

• FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006).

Topic(s)

• IST-2002-2.3.1.7 - Semantic-based knowledge systems

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

NoE - Network of Excellence

Coordinator

LEOPOLD-FRANZENS-UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: CHRISTOPH-PROBST-PLATZ, INNRAIN 52 ; 6020 INNSBRUCK ; Austria
• Total cost: No data

Participants (18)

CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS

Greece

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 6TH KM CHARILAOU-THERMI ROAD ; 57001 THERMI-THESSALONIKI
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ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE

Switzerland

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: ECUBLENS ; 1015 LAUSANNE
• Total cost: No data

FRANCE TELECOM SA

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: PLACE D'ALLERAY 6 ; 75015 PARIS
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FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: KAISERSWERTHER STRASSE 16-18 ; 14195 BERLIN
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GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: WELFENGARTEN 1 ; 30167 HANNOVER
• Total cost: No data

INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: DOMAINE DE VOLUCEAU ; 78153 LE CHESNAY
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LIBERA UNIVERSITA DI BOLZANO

Italy

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: VIA RAFFAELLO SERNESI 1 ; 39100 BOLZANO (BOZEN)
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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY

Ireland

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: University Road ; GALWAY
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THE OPEN UNIVERSITY

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: WALTON HALL ; MK7 6AA MILTON KEYNES
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THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: KING'S COLLEGE ; AB24 3FX ABERDEEN
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THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: ABERCROMBY SQUARE ; L69 3BX LIVERPOOL
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THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: FIRTH COURT, WESTERN BANK ; S10 2TN SHEFFIELD
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THE VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: OXFORD ROAD ; M13 9PL MANCHESTER
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UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID

Spain

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: AVENIDA RAMIRO DE MAEZTU 7 ; 28040 MADRID
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UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO

Italy

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: VIA BELENZANI 12 ; 38100 TRENTO
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UNIVERSITAET KARLSRUHE (TH)

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: KAISERSTRASSE 12 ; 76131 KARLSRUHE
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VERENIGING VOOR CHRISTELIJK HOGER ONDERWIJS, WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK EN PATIENTENZORG

Netherlands

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: DE BOELELAAN 1105 ; 1081 HV AMSTERDAM
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VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL

Belgium

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: PLEINLAAN 2 ; 1050 BRUSSEL
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