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.
Making Open Maps Richer: Inside the OMMS project
Project OMMS (Open Mobile Maps Search) was conducted by E foundation with the aim to enhance OpenStreetMap data with web data from the #OpenWebIndex to feed these combined data into a competitive Open Source Maps App. OpenStreetMap data is comprehensive in many areas of the world, but for the purposes of a maps app that […]
Plugging a university supercomputer into Europe’s Open Search infrastructure: The NordLink project
The University of Oldenburg connects its data centre and HPC cluster to OpenWebSearch.eu, demonstrating how academic infrastructure can add to a distributed European web index A European open web search infrastructure should not depend on a single data centre or a single organisation. Instead, the idea is to connect different institutions, different countries, different kinds […]
Building sovereign infrastructure for Open Web Search: Inside the EEI project
The French eco-responsible infrastructure provider EXAION (therefore the project name EEI) provides GPU-powered computing to the OpenWebSearch.eu project The OpenWebSearch.eu research project aims to create and maintain an independent, open web search infrastructure, based in Europe. In order to establish powerful, sustainable and reliable Open Web Search services, a robust physical infrastructure is a basic […]