Introducing the Third-Party Projects of OpenWebSearch.EU
Together for a free and open web search of the next generation
Third-Party activities are driving forces in the OpenWebSearch.eu Community Programme, with project fundings provided by the OpenWebSearch.eu project (funded by the EC under the GA 101070014).
Third-Party projects are closely related to the topics addressed in the OpenWebSearch.eu project and aim to extend and enrich existing R&D activities. They also pursue new activities that are complementary to the project goals and objectives.
By mid-2024 we have closed the last set of open calls for Third-Party research contributions. Since its beginning, the OpenWebSearch.eu project consortium has identified and onboarded 14 funded Third-Party projects in total. Call 1 in 2023 resulted in six Third-Party projects covering technical, legal and economic matters. In 2024 new partners from Calls 2 and 3 joined with specifically targeted technical application projects as well as data/supercomputing infrastructure.
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Project descriptions at a glance
Projects from the 1st Third-Party Call
Conceptual contributions on legal or economic aspects of Open Search, as well as technical approaches to legally compliant data acquisition considering societal constraints.
Projects from the 2nd Third-Party Call
Innovative applications of the Open Web Index. Usage and exploitation of the data provided in innovative applications scenarios or research topics.
Projects from the 3rd Third-Party Call
Computing and data centres are invited to join the OpenWebSearch.eu network of infrastructure organisations and to host parts of the OWSAI infrastructure.
From shop counter to online catalogue: Inside the DTCommerce project
A Slovenian team set out to build open-source tools that help small retailers go digital easily, by importing product descriptions from a spreadsheet into an online shop – with AI-enhanced descriptions and images, in just a few clicks For small to medium sized Brick-and-Mortar retailers, the move from physical shops to e-commerce is a long […]
The case for Neural Crawling: Inside the FUN project
A research team from Pisa and Glasgow proposes that AI language models should decide which web pages to download – and shows why this matters for the future of search Before a search engine can find anything, it must first build a collection of web pages to search through. This collection is assembled by a […]
How Dutch municipalities are sharing Search Intelligence to serve citizens better: Inside the CIFFIL Service project
The CIFFIL Service project shows that open web index standards can help small municipalities improve their search quality by accessing results from larger ones Search engines work best when they have a lot of data to learn from. The more documents in a collection, the better the system can distinguish between common words and genuinely […]