Yorkshire university to develop WWW
Dienstag, 31 August 2010
Researchers at Sheffield Hallam University will work on a project aimed at improving data search on the World Wide Web.
The South Yorkshire university - which has been granted £300,000 from the European Commission as part of a £3.265m collaborative project by German software company SAP, will focus on making searches more precise to save time. How this improved search can impact upon business will also be studied by the SHU.
The internet currently allows users to go through a small proportion of relevant information and requires people to read through many web pages or define their searches to get more precise results.
However, next generation internet, which is called the 'Semantic Web' by Tim Berners-Lee, the father of internet - will be able to hold more data than ever and provide more concise search results.
The project, helped by Enterprise Europe Yorkshire, will club the quintessential features of semantic technologies and business know-how together to create this kind of platform.
Dr Simon Polovina, senior lecturer in Enterprise Computing at SHU, said: "Semantic technology will be the next big breakthrough for the World Wide Web and will better enable computers and people to work in cooperation.
"This project, Combining and Uniting Business Intelligence with Semantic Technologies (CUBIST), will focus on creating new visual tools to help businesses make sense of the vast amounts of data that are out there.
"To be awarded funding to do this kind of work alongside a company like SAP is recognition of the truly leading edge research going on here in Sheffield."
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