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Web technologies for West Balkan countries

Web4WeB is a scientific project funded under the EC FP6. The mission of Web4WeB is to strengthen the West Balkan’s research body, industry and service providers in one of the most important areas of current computer technology – Semantic Web. The center of excellence that will emerge from the Web4WeB project, will concentrate its efforts around the outreach to West Balkan research body, coordination of research efforts in the region and outreach to Industry and to Education.

Project Details

Objectives

The main objectives of the Web4WeB project are as follows

• To establish regional centre of excellence for Semantic Web and other modern Web technologies that will serve as an information and communications focal point as well as knowledge base for the whole West Balkan region

• To provide a main point of contact in West Balkan region for the application development industry which can see that the Semantic Web offers them something, but need guidance on when to enter the marketplace with different technologies, and how their technologies fit into wider developments of the area

• To enable the rapid exchange of information between those who have critical questions in the area of Semantic Web and those who have the answers or who can work toward answering those questions

• To facilitate active co-working in Semantic Web technologies between universities, research institutes, centers of excellence both within and beyond West Balkan region

• To develop and provide training courses in local languages (on-line and face to face) for researchers across West Balkan in Semantic Web technologies, so that they can transfer the technology with them into application developer industries and user organizations in commerce and industry in their countries

• To provide migration paths for stakeholders across West Balkan from their current closed information systems to join the collective integrated Semantic Web as it develops.

• To increase the overall competence of the Mihailo Pupin Institute in the field of modern Web technologies based on Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS).

Workpackages

Project coordination and management (WP1)

Technology watch (WP2)

Networking (WP3)

Training courses (WP4)

Web4WeB one stop shop (WP5)

Dissemination activities in local language (WP6)

Project Homepage : www.web4web.org/portal/Web4WeB (This Page)