1. Semantic Web and Peer to Peer Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS SWAP

2. 2 Overview EU IST Project April 2002 to October 2004 Total effort: 440 person months Basic objective: Achieve synergy between two prominent fields of development: P2P and Semantic Web

3. 3 Partners Universität Karlsruhe (Coordinator) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Meta4, Madrid Empolis UK Ltd. / Empolis Polska Dresdner Bank AG IBIT (Foundation of the Balearic Islands for the Innovation of Technology)

4. 4 Objectives Emergent Semantics Automatic creation of ontologies –from folder structures or emails Automatic alignment of peers –my folder X equals your folder Y Automatic mapping of peers –extension of my folder X with the content of your folder Y

5. 5 Objectives (contd) routing of information requests to the appropriate peer visualization of the distributed structures automatic evolution of ontologies

6. 6 VISION - Thematic Network on Knowledge Management! Become a member! http://www.vision.eu