Entries by OWS.EU Team

#wows2024 International Workshop on Open Web Search announced – Call for papers and software is open

The first International Workshop on Open Web Search #wows24 will take place in Glasgow on 28 March 2024. Organised by the OpenWebSearch.eu community and co-located with the #ECIR2024 conference, the first #wows workshop calls the information and retrieval and Open Web Search community. Especially doctoral students, but also early-stage students such as Master‘s and Bachelor‘s […]

NGI Forum 2023 Brussels – Recap and Recordings

In November, the #NGIForum23 took place in Brussels. With a focus on Digital Commons, the gathering brought together thought-leaders, policy makers, researchers and innovators in an inspiring event to discuss an open, more secure and citizen-centred internet of the future.

“Ethical, open and non-commercial: the Open Web Search project is designed to provide Europe with the right alternative to existing search engines” | CERN news

Our project partner CERN featured OWS.EU in their news section. Very readworthy article about the Open Web Search project and its goal of securing Europe’s contributing to Europe’s digital sovereignty as well as promoting an open human-centered search engine market. “Together with the other partners, we have started by simply discussing possible ways of building […]

“Meet the StormCrawler users: Q&A with the OpenWebSearch.eu project” | Digital Pebbles

Interview on StormCrawler blog for an interview with Michael Dinzinger and Saber Zerhoudi, both researchers in the ows.eu project. Learn about their research at the Uni Passau, about resource-efficient crawling and how they build crawling pipelines for an open web index – and why the heterogeneous infrastructure of the project is a major challenge in […]

ows.eu Consortium meeting at IT4 in Ostrava

The third OWS.EU consortium meeting took place in Ostrava, Czech Republic. For three consecutive days the 14 partners of OpenWebSearch.eu reunited  at the IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center (a big Děkujeme!) to discuss updates across all working packages and create a new agenda for the year to come.

Recap #ossym23 – relive the 5th international Symposium on Open Search at CERN

In October, Researchers, Tech experts, Political Representatives and Industry Executives came together to discuss about the foundations of a human-centric, transparent and open web search at CERN in Switzerland. The team of the Open Search Foundation has prepared comprehensive reviews of all three days Read all about the keynotes and presentations – including pictures

Proceedings #ossym22 – 4th international Symposium on Open Search

The proceedings of the 4th International Open Search Symposium #ossym22 have been published. Vol. 4 (2022): Proceedings 4th International Open Search Symposium #ossym2022, 10–12 October 2022, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland Volume two of the Proceedings of the International Open Search Symposium 2022 summarises articles and research results selected and presented at the Open Search Symposium 2022. […]

The Open Search Foundation is Calling for #FreeWebSearch Day

“The #FreeWebSearch Day on 29 September reminds us that open access to online resources is a key factor for freedom of information and democracy. It draws attention to this issue worldwide and bundles participatory actions and invites especially the Open Web Search Community to take action” says Christine Plote, co-fouder and member of the board […]

“Eine Suchmaschine für Europa” | ORF

Austrian broadcaster ORF reported in his radio program „Ö1 Digital.Leben“on our European OpenWebSearch.eu initiative and the EU project and called the movement “Search Engine Rebels”. The two interviewed are Alexander Nussbaumer from TU Graz and Stefan Voigt from Open Search Foundation/DLR. Here is the radio piece (German): https://sound.orf.at/collection/1170/34867/eine-suchmaschine-fur-europa

Opinion paper: Impact and development of an Open Web Index for Open Web Search | JASIST

A quick read yet thorough overview of the possibilities, technical aspects and principles of an Open Web Index The OpenWebSearch.Eu consortium published an opinion paper on “The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)” about the impact and development of an Open Web Index. The 23-strong author team explains the challenges and […]