originator EU's Telematics Application Programme (www.echo.lu/telematics/home.html)
category project that developed a Resource Description Framework (RDF) and offers a Toolkit for that
significance, range major international project (research+implementation)
policy build large scale information networks for the research community; distributed Web indexing, subject-based Web cataloguing, directory services, and caching
- subject based search services based on selection, description and classification of high quality networked resources
- regional exhaustive search services based on indexing of metadata generated by automated web crawlers
begin July 1998
timetable phase 1 finished in June 2000, phase 2 (enhancements) is in progress
Andreas Aschenbrenner (aola@ifs.tuwien.ac.at)