The City of Manor & Manor Labs are pleased to be working with the OKKAM project led by the University of Trento, Italy.  This open innovation platform, powered by Spigit, crowdsources the research and development of ENS.

WHAT IS OKKAM A web-scale open service called Entity Name System (ENS) for supporting the systematic reuse of identifiers for "things". Read more...	WHO IS OKKAM The OKKAM Consortium (map overview)	WHY OKKAM? "Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity" [Ockham's razor, XIV century] "Entity identifiers should not be multiplied beyond necessity" [OKKAM's razor, XXI century]
What can you do with OKKAM? Annotate your content through the plugins of several OKKAM-empowered tools (see our testubes). Use our APIs to get and create globally shared IDs with your applications. Please, and find out more about our 5 million entity repository!	University of Trento, Italy (Co-Ordinator) [team] L3S Research Center, Germany SAP Research, Germany Expert System, Italy Elsevier B.V., Netherlands Europe Unlimited SA, Belgium National Microelectronics Application Center (MAC), Ireland Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland DERI Galway, Ireland University of Malaga, Spain INMARK, Spain Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA), Italy	Because ... ... identifiers have always been one of the cornerstones of information and knowledge management in computer-based systems ... a service like the ENS may improve the quality of content production in professional environments ... identifiers may improve the precision and recall of existing search engines ... a new generation of entity-centric search engines can use identfiers to change the rules of information retrieval ... a global service for managing identifiers will improve the quality of user-generated content on the Web2.0 ... a shared ecosystem of identifers will make web-scale mash-ups much easier and faster ... for sure you know more reasons

 

 

co-funded by the European Union