Realizing the semantic web

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

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Funding Scheme

NoE - Network of Excellence

Coordinator

LEOPOLD-FRANZENS-UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK

Address

Christoph-probst-platz, Innrain 52
6020 Innsbruck
Austria

Participants (18)

CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS

Greece

Address

6th Km Charilaou-thermi Road
57001 Thermi-thessaloniki

ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE

Switzerland

Address

Ecublens
1015 Lausanne

FRANCE TELECOM SA

France

Address

Place D'alleray 6
75015 Paris

FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN

Germany

Address

Kaiserswerther Strasse 16-18
14195 Berlin

GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER

Germany

Address

Welfengarten 1
30167 Hannover

INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE

France

Address

Domaine De Voluceau
78153 Le Chesnay

LIBERA UNIVERSITA DI BOLZANO

Italy

Address

Via Raffaello Sernesi 1
39100 Bolzano (Bozen)

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY

Ireland

Address

University Road
Galway

THE OPEN UNIVERSITY

United Kingdom

Address

Walton Hall
MK7 6AA Milton Keynes

THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN

United Kingdom

Address

King's College
AB24 3FX Aberdeen

THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL

United Kingdom

Address

Abercromby Square
L69 3BX Liverpool

THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD

United Kingdom

Address

Firth Court, Western Bank
S10 2TN Sheffield

THE VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

United Kingdom

Address

Oxford Road
M13 9PL Manchester

UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID

Spain

Address

Avenida Ramiro De Maeztu 7
28040 Madrid

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO

Italy

Address

Via Belenzani 12
38100 Trento

UNIVERSITAET KARLSRUHE (TH)

Germany

Address

Kaiserstrasse 12
76131 Karlsruhe

VERENIGING VOOR CHRISTELIJK HOGER ONDERWIJS, WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK EN PATIENTENZORG

Netherlands

Address

De Boelelaan 1105
1081 HV Amsterdam

VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL

Belgium

Address

Pleinlaan 2
1050 Brussel