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About Sesam4

SESAM4 is a Norwegian, national project with the overall goal to make semantic technology understandable and accessible for organisations and small/medium-sized enterprises. The project has run from April 2008 to March 2011.

This portal collects and dissiminates all project results for you. Drilling down into the portal you will find technology primers, educational resources and software which helps you to get started.

A total of 6 demonstrators are available through these pages, ranging from business specific demonstrators in Tourism and Company Market Information to several SPARQL end-points providing specific data-sources for you to try out and query. The project also features an online "OpenBergen" tagger, which let's you upload, analyse and annotate Norwegian texts.

Through its focus on interoperability, common conceptual frameworks and standardised ways for modelling domains, semantic technology offers a competitive advantage to  companies that understand how to integrate with these standards. Information on the Internet is, if at all, often published through proprietary interfaces that require a potential user to adapt to different web-services and content representations. Automization of applications against such informaton sources is a pain-staking and difficult process that is both error-prone and expensive due to the unstable, dynamic nature of such implementations.

Standardisation of knowledge representation on the Internet has been a topic of research for many years. Many standards (eg. HTTP, URI, HTML, XML, SOAP) are widely adopted and have significantly contributed to the ways in which information has been exchanged on the web. With the current integration of Smartphones and numerous devices showing good computing power, we find an increasing call for automation of many different, information-intensive tasks. Such tasks depend on a profound and well-defined amount of knowledge being digitally available. Several different knowledge representation languages and schemes have been defined over the years, probably with ISO and W3C standardsas the most prominent amongst them.

Sesam4 investigates such standards and methods for how to best apply and utilize them. It does so through the implementation of different software solutions in various application domains. Methodically going through the process of application of semantic technology, the project provides tools, insights and best practice for data conversion, publishing and utilisation.

Brought together under the umbrella of ICT-Norway (IKT-Norge) the consortium consists of renown commercial partners like Computas, Cyberwatcher, TextUrgy, InfoSector, ESIS Norge, Ovitas and academic research partners such as the Western Norwegian Research Institute (WNRI), the Norwegian Computing Center (NR) and Bergen University.

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Computas er et norsk IT- konsulentsels­kap som leverer tjenester og løsninger innen arbeidsprosesser, fagsystemer og samhandling. Kjernekompetansen vår er systemutvikling, arkitektur og integrasjon, prosjektledelse og rådgivning. Hans Karim og Jonas Vi har unik erfaring, leverer høy kvalitet i alle prosjekter og samarbeider tett med kundene våre for å lage de beste løsningene. Computas er kjent for innovative løsninger, vellykkede leveranser og høy kundetilfredshet. Vi har høy kompetanse og lang erfaring i å utvikle systemer for kunnskapsbaserte arbeidsprosesser, og løsningene kan integreres med alle ledende programvareplattformer. Vi har også utviklet egen programvare for arbeidsprosesser. Vi har en rekke større kunder innen både offentlig og privat sektor og er 100% eid av de ansatte. Computas ble etablert i 1985, og har siden opparbeidet en unik kompetanse innen Business Process Management / arbeidsprosessløsninger. Totalt har våre løsninger mer enn 25 000 brukere. Vi fokuserer på innovasjon og forskning og utvikling innen våre fagområder. Leveringsdyktighet og økt verdiskapning er nøkkelord i Computas. Derfor er vi i dag en viktig leverandør til offentlig og privat sektor, og vi vinner stadig nye og interessante prosjekter.

CyberWatcher is the European leader within online monitoring and crawling - covering news and social media. In addition we sort and analyze unstructured updates from the web. As vendor to other information providers CyberWatcher have OEM-customers and Partnerships all over Europe as well as outside Europe. The company covers more than 40,000 news sources in 50 languages and 180 countries, and with search capability 2003-last minute update. We currently have above 20,000 enterprises receiving online news from our news crawling – mostly through vendors of business information services. CyberWatcher has offices and sales representatives in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, UK, Poland, USA, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Balkan.
 
Wanting to comply with new standards and being able to reply swiftly to public requests for open data? People at ESIS have more than 20 years of international experience with semantic technologies. ESIS helps you to understand the latest concepts & technology, convert your data, assist in data cleansing and eventually helps you installing your data on a server for general access. In addition we offer the experience you sometimes need at the executive level in order to make your project a success. Do you not want to drift your data yourself? No problem, we can also take care of that part. Using virtual servers with high-bandwidth Internet access we can drift services for a very competitive pricing based on open source software in a professional drift environment. So why wait? Contact us today!
 
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Norsk Regnesentral (Norwegian Computing Center, NR) is a private, independent, non-profit foundation established in 1952. NR carries out contract research and development projects in the areas of information and communication technology and applied statistical modeling. The clients are a broad range of industrial, commercial and public service organizations in the national as well as the international market. Our scientific and technical capabilities are further developed in co-operation with The Research Council of Norway and key customers. The results of our projects may take the form of reports, software, prototypes, and short courses. A proof of the confidence and appreciation our clients have for us is given by the fact that most of our new contracts are signed with previous customers. NR is one of the technical and industrial research institutes in Norway. Research institutes carry out approximately 25% of the research in Norway. NR receives a small basic funding from the government through the Research Council of Norway but depends mainly on funding for all the research projects from the organization that benefits from the research. Typical clients are large companies like Hydro and Gjensidige, smaller private companies, public sector and international organizations. NR has contributed to the constitution of a large number of private companies. These companies were founded either by NR as an organization or by some of the employees, who either continued working for NR or became an employee in the new company. NR has also helped persons and other organizations to start new companies, contributed in developing new business areas for private companies and participated in the reorganization of work in public organizations. NR was established in 1952. Until 1970 an important part of the activity was to perform mathematical computations for other organizations. After 1970 NR has been a methodological research institute. In 1985, NR became an independent institute and moved to its present location in 1988. NR is famous for inventing the first object oriented programming language Simula in the 1960s. NR has worked with data communication since 1963, the Internet since 1973 and multimedia since1994. NR started working with statistics in 1952, remote sensing in 1982, geostatistics and petroleum in 1983, marine resources in 1988 and electricity prices and finance in 1994
 
Ovitas har spesialisert seg på løsninger og tjenester innenfor områdene Content- og Knowledge Management. Vi leverer skreddersydde løsninger, ofte basert på anerkjente produkter fra empolis. Med fleksible verktøy for Content Management, arbeidsflyt, navigering og gjenfinning kan vi tilby kostnadseffektive løsninger som er tilpasset dine forretningskritiske behov. Med base i Oslo, har vi fornøyde kunder i alle de nordiske landene som bruker våre løsninger. Ovitas består av et internasjonalt nettverk med kontorer i USA, Ungarn og Norge. Samtlige Ovitas selskaper er eksklusive partnere for empolis GmbH, en del av Bertelsmann AG - Europas største medieselskap.
 
Take Control of Your Data! With its patented semantic technology textUrgy is able to understand the meaning of text in information systems. The textUrgy products and services effectively guide the users to the information that they are looking for by offering Metadata Tagging as well as Search & Navigation capabilities. According to research firms IDC and Delphi Group the average knowledge worker spends about 25% of their day just looking for information. Good tools are required to reduce this time so that information becomes an asset rather than a time killer. 
 
Uni Digital is part of the research company Uni Research AS. The University of Bergen is the main owner of Uni Research Uni Digital is a research and development centre for language, language testing, electronic publishing, digital media and electronic education. We have a close co-operation with University of Bergen, especially the Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Social Sciences. Other co-operating partners and employers are The Norwegian Research Council, EU, The Norwegian Language Council, industry and the Norwegian Civil Service. Språktenologi Language Technology Uni Digital develops online dictionaries and solutions for language processing. We build language resources and infrastructure for research and development and we offer tools for term extraction, grammar development, annotation and corpus work. Språktesting Language Testing Uni Digital develops and carries out language tests in foreign languages for all ages according to international standards. We conduct research on assessment methods (assessment of, assessment as and assessment for learning), language testing and standard setting. E-publisering e-Publishing Uni Digital conducts research in semantic technology in order to facilitate efficient search in complex text collections. We develop infrastructure for the publishing of large text collections and host digital versions of cultural resources including the works of Ludwig Wittgenstein. E-læring Digital Media and eLearning Uni Digital conducts research on the pedagogical potential and limitations of digital media and eLearning systems. We analyse social and cultural aspects of new media and offer technology for development and assessment of eLearning systems.
 
Vestlandsforsking is an assignment-based research institute. The institute is organised as a foundation and was established on 6 March 1985. Sogn and Fjordane county municipality was the formal founder. The institute is located in Sogndal, by the Sognefjord in the western part of Norway. The institute has 30 employees and an annual turnover of approximately 27 million NOK. Regional knowledge intersection Together, Vestlandsforsking and Sogn and Fjordane University College constitute a collective specialist community, with approximately 200 academic posts. Researchers from the College also participate in projects carried out by Vestlandsforsking. Core visions Vestlandsforsking is an international research institute with regional entrenchment. Our vision is the promotion of knowledge development and sharing. Core values Vestlandsforsking shall carry out critical and independent research. Transparency is a prerequisite for our knowledge development and sharing. High quality shall be a distinguishing characteristic of all of our activities. Objectives Vestlandsforsking shall provide contributions of knowledge of a high quality which shall contribute to greater insight into and innovation and development of policy, administration and value creation. Vestlandsforsking shall participate at the forefront of national and international research, and be an active participant in development in Western Norway. Financing Project revenues finance the ordinary operation of Vestlandsforsking. Contributions in the form of basic subsidies shall be dedicated to academic development, project development and quality assurance. At the time of establishment in 1985, Sogn and Fjordane county municipality, the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, and 62 banks, companies, municipalities and organisations in the county provided 4 million NOK in founding capital. Organisation Vestlandsforsking is headed by a board comprising seven members. Sogn and Fjordane county municipality elects the majority of these, while the Research Council of Norway elects one. The director is responsible for the daily management of the institute. The research areas are organised thematically and are headed by research directors and administrative group leaders. Competence Vestlandsforsking has competence in the academic fields of social studies, natural sciences, technology and the humanities. Quality assurance Quality assurance is performed by way of academic supervision and control and through a separate internal quality management system for the execution of projects.

 

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