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The SOURCE research project (launched on April 1, 2026) makes a key contribution to the German federal government’s IT security research as part of the BMFTR research program “Digital.Sicher.Souverän.” (“Digital.Secure.Sovereign.”) The OpenWebSearch.EU project has ended but the Open Web Search Initiative is now contributing to numerous other research projects. One that launched recently is project […]
After the successful completion of the OpenWebSearch.EU project in April this year we are continuing the operation, maintanance and further development of the Open Web Index (OWI) and a wider European Web Data Infrastructure under the Open Web Search (OWS) initiative. The initiative unites most of the former project partners and brings in further parties […]
European Big Data Value Forum 2026 takes place in Galway on 30 September and 1 October, bringing together industry professionals, business developers, researchers and policy-makers from all over Europe and other regions of the world to advance policy actions and industrial and research activities in the areas of Data and AI. The Open Web Index (OWI) […]
The 8th International Open Search Symposium (#ossym) brings together experts and practitioners from across computer science, law and regulation, ethics, economics, and civil society. . #ossym2026 will take place as a hybrid event in Berlin from 7–9 October 2026, hosted at CODE University of Applied Sciences and supported by the German Aerospace Center (DLR). This […]
While the project officially ended on 28 February 2026 with very positive results, the journey continues under the European Open Web Search initiative. But first things first… How it started and where we are at In September 2022 a consortium of 14 European organizations*, spread across 7 countries, have joined into the Horizon Europe funded […]
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works. Within the OpenWebSearch.EU (OWS) project CERN plays a crucial role not only with regards to supercomputing infrastructure, but […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The next partner we are introducing is IT4Innovations National Supercomputing center. IT4Innovations is a university research institute of VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, providing technical support and supercomputing power for the Open Web Index. The research team is guided and supported by the managing director of IT4Innovations, Vít Vondrák. The team includes Jan Martinovič, […]
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