1. Application Service Provision of Semantic Annotation, Aggregation, Indexing and Routing of Textual, Multimedia, and Multilingual Web Content Esperonto Services IST-2001-34373 http://www.esperonto.net

2. 2 VRB, Esperonto, May 16, 2002 Project Rationale and Objectives Rationale We want to build the SW (Info overload, task delegation), but do not want to loose content of current Web -HTML will remain a dominant web language for many years -Database generated pages will gain popularity (.com) XML/RDF/... family will slowly take over Objectives Bridge between current Web and SW (Upgrading existing content) Added value applications on top of SW

3. 3 VRB, Esperonto, May 16, 2002 Main Innovations Annotation beyond static pages Dynamic pages (DB generated) Webservices Multiple ontology management Multi lingual UI level, annotation level, ontology level (3D) visualization of SW content Semantic Indexes and P2P routing for localization and retrieval of SW content by agents

4. 4 VRB, Esperonto, May 16, 2002 Expected results, application domains Expected Results A(nnotation)SP (Wrappers: tools and methodology) Ontology construction, management and alignment tools and methodology Multilingual facilities at the ontology, content and user interface level Navigation and visualization techniques for Semantic Web content Application domains Virtual cultural tour Fund finder Scientific discovery

5. 5 VRB, Esperonto, May 16, 2002 R&D Topics and Infrastructure Issues for FP6 Ontologies are moving objects Lifecycle methodologies and tools Ontology alignment Semantic Web organization vs current web organization Semantic indexes Semantic routers (P2P) Business models of SW technology

6. 6 VRB, Esperonto, May 16, 2002 Consortium Details and Contact Information Intelligent Software Components – iSOCO (ES) Universidad Politécnica de Madrid – UPM (ES) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – VU (NL) Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz – DFKI (DE) University of Liverpool – Uniliv (UK) Residencia de Estudiantes (ES) Centre d'Innovació i Desenvolupament Empresarial – CIDEM (ES) Richard Benjamins – iSOCO richard@isoco.com Tel. +34-91 334 9797 Fax +34-91 334 9799 www.esperonto.net esperonto.semanticweb.org 4 1 1 1

7. 7 VRB, Esperonto, May 16, 2002 First SW projects: IBROW3 (Esprit), IBROW (IST) The World-Wide Web is changing the nature of software development to a distributive plug & play process. IBROW3 integrates research on heterogeneous databases, interoperability and web technology with knowledge- system technology and ontologies. The project, thus, aims at providing intelligent reasoning services on the Web, as opposed to the more common information services. The broker needs to reason about characteristics of PSMs, for example about their competence Web services Agents@SW Semantics From Info Overload to Task Delegation Annotation Then (1998) Now