Thursday, January 1, 2009

OpenKnowledge

Most of the web’s potential can’t be tapped via websites and browsers. A smart toolkit crafted by European researchers to unlock those hidden resources has now been tested in three real-world applications.

Eighteen months ago, the EU-funded OpenKnowledge programme set out to provide internet users with a simple set of tools to find and interact smoothly with trustworthy partners across the web.

OpenKnowledge met this challenge by creating a new computer language, crafting smart solutions to the problem of semantic mapping, and finding ways to ensure that partners are reputable.

The researchers packaged these capabilities into an open-source software kernel that is now freely available on their website.

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OpenKnowledge

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