Semantic Technology: Sesame
Sesame is a fast and scalable RDF database, one of the building blocks of the Semantic Web (a.k.a. "Web 3.0").
SPARQL now a formal W3C standard!
January 15, 2008. W3C announced the publication of SPARQL as the key standard for opening data on the Semantic Web.
AutoFocus Server 4.0 released!
January 2008. The server-based counterpart of AutoFocus, AutoFocus Server, is released.
The Prince and the Magic Glasses
Learn how prince Aduna used the magic of Guided Exploration embedded in the AutoFocus to help a little princess find happiness.
Aduna offers enterprise search solutions based on Guided Exploration: during the search process you receive guidance in the form of contextual hints for further exploration and user-friendly visualization to keep overview. This gives you more accurate knowledge in less time, improving your performance.
Benefits
- Find information faster
- Get more accurate results
- Gain insight into the structure of information collections
- Spend more time actually using information
- Leverage valuable metadata
How does it work?
No more long result lists with very little context. Guided Exploration offers:
- Stepwise refinement, through the use of context information.
- Recognize instead of specify promising ways to proceed.
- No dead ends because information has already been scanned.
- Visual overviews to give you deeper insight and to discover new connections.
Semantic Power
Metadata is stored in a format called RDF (Resource Description Framework), a W3C standard for the Semantic Web. Aduna has developed one of the world's leading open source metadata storage frameworks called Sesame. Aduna's enterprise search solutions are based on Sesame and already used by large organizations like Dutch government, Boeing and Reed Elsevier.
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