Apache Stanbol
Software
Apache Stanbol is an open source modular software stack and reusable set of components for semantic content management.
Apache Stanbol components are meant to be accessed over RESTful interfaces to provide semantic services for content management. Thus, one application is to extend traditional content management systems with (internal or external) semantic services.
Additionally, Apache Stanbol lets you create new types of content management systems with semantics at their core. The current code is written in Java and based on the OSGi component framework.
Applications include extending existing content management systems with (internal or external) semantic services, and creating new types of content management systems with semantics at their core.
History
In 2008, the Salzburg Research led, as entity coordinator, a consortium of seven research partners and six industrial partners to the proposal of the IKS project with the aim of receiving funding by the European institutions under the 7th Framework Programme.
The consortium comprised
Salzburg Research (Coordinator), Austria
DFKI - Forschungsinstitut für Künstliche Intelligenz, Germany
Hochschule St. Gallen, Switzerland
CNR-ISTC - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
Software Quality Lab, University of Paderborn, Germany
SRDC - Software Research and Development and Consultancy Ltd., Turkey
Hochschule Furtwangen, Germany
Nuxeo, France
Alkacon Software GmbH, Germany
TXT Polymedia, Italy
Pisano Holding GmbH, Germany
Nemein Oy, Finland
Day Software AG, Switzerland
In January 2009, the Interactive Knowledge Stack (IKS) started partly funded by the European Commission to provide an "open source technology platform for semantically enhanced content management systems". IKS received €6.58m co-funding by the European Union for an overall project duration of 4 years, hence setting the project's end date by the end of 2012.
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