Entries by ows.eu Team

Together for free and open web search: OWS.EU Community Meet-Up was a great success!

From 9 to 11 October the #ossym24 brought together the open web search community to discuss technical, legal, ethical and economical aspects of free, unbiased and transparent access to information on the internet. This year the OWS.EU consortium organised for the first time a “Community Meet-Up” on the evening of the first conference day. Many […]

OWS.EU Community Meet-Up @ #ossym24

The 6th International Open Search Symposium #ossym24 invites open search enthusiasts to discuss and promote ideas and concepts of Open Web Search at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Garching from 9 to 11 October 2024. OWS.EU hosts a Community Meet-Up during the conference. OWS.EU Community Meet-Up @ #ossym24 The #ossym24 is organised by the […]

OWS.EU Partner in Focus: University of Passau

The University of Passau coordinates the OpenWebSearch.EU project and is beyond that responsible for providing the Open Web Index (OWI), which includes the development of technology for coordinating crawlers, building the OWI and enabling its download. Building the OWI is one of the key milestones in the OWS.EU project since it will accelerate further use and research towards […]

Update from OWS.EU partner projects: Part 3

Building an Open Web Index does not only include technical challenges, but also legal and societal ones. To extend our R&D activities around Open Web Search, we initiated the OWS.EU Community Programme. In our first Third-party call we asked for contributions on legally compliant data gathering and identifying legal or economic aspects that enable or […]

Update from OWS.EU partner projects: Part 2

The OWS.EU Community Programme is an essential part of our work towards a European Open Web Search. The programme helps us to integrate new third-party project teams into the OWS.EU landscape and future R&D activities. In November 2023 we successfully onboarded six new partner projects looking into technical, legal and economic research topics in support of […]

Update from OWS.EU partner projects: Part 1

In November 2023 OWS.EU successfully onboarded six new partner projects looking into technical, legal and economic research topics in support of the European Open Web Index that is currently in the making. The projects were selected in 2023 following an open call. Currently projects from the second and third calls are being reviewed with updates following […]

Nine projects selected to work with OWS.EU

Nine new projects will support our quest for a better European Web Search from July 2024 onwards. The projects are the winners of the last OWS.EU third-party calls #2 and #3, which opened in February 2024 and closed in April 2024. The nine winners were selected from 49 submissions by a jury of experts from the […]