Semantic Web for European Security

A team lead by ESG - Elektroniksystem und Logistik GmbH, Munich, and composed, among others, of Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory, German Aerospace Center, and Joint Research Center, has been awarded by the European Commission a project for the "GEOCREW Study on Crisis Management and Situation Awareness Centre". The project is a supporting action in the first call for the new European security research program [1].


@semantics contributes to GEOCREW with the "Information Integration Concept" workpackage. The approach taken by @semantics is based on the Resource Description Framework (RDF) [2] as the basic layer of the Semantic Web. This open Web standard, combined with advanced Web and encryption techniques can be used to build flexible cooperation models, combine public information with commercial and classified data and build software systems which can be easily adapted to different threats.


About @semantics: a start-up company developing
basic Semantic Web technologies and building "Worldwide Information Integration" solutions. @semantics is a European company with offices in Italy, The Netherlands, Norway and United Kingdom.


[1] Enhancement of the European industrial potential in the field of Security Research 2004-2006


[2] Resource Description Framework (RDF), World-Wide-Web Consortium

Libby Miller Joins @semantics

Libby Miller strengthes the team at @semantics as partner and Chief Research Officer. She will focus on the research programs and help apply leading edge technologies to our customer solutions.

Libby was formerly at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology (ILRT) at the University of Bristol, where she helped run the SWAD-Europe project. She is also "co-conspirator" of the FOAF project with Dan Brickley.

She has been part of the Semantic Web Communtiy from the begining on a wide range of topics such as such as calendaring, query, vocabulary developement and community building. Libby will continue her pivotal role within the the W3C and RDF communities with the full support of @semantics.

About Libby Miller: Libby earned a BA at Oxford University and a M.Sc and Ph.D from University of Bristol.

About @semantics: a start-up company with offices in Italy, The Netherlands, Norway and United Kingdom. The company vision is an Open RDF Platform as a base for information integration solutions for enterprise, governmental and aerospace applications.

Profium, Asemantics and HP Laboratories initiate SPARQL4J Open Source effort

(Espoo, 11.1.2005). Profium, ASemantics and HP Laboratories have initiated an
open source effort to provide Java programmers with a JDBC driver to access
SPARQL-enabled metadata repositories.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is in the process of developing the
SPARQL query language and protocol for Resource Description Framework
(RDF) based metadata repositories. The Data Access Working Group (DAWG)
has already delivered first working drafts of the requirements, uses
cases and the query language itself.

A SourceForge-hosted Open Source initiative starts with the development
of portable JDBC driver that will be ready by the time the working group
finishes its work in 2005.