Enabling the Web of Entities. A scalable and sustainable solution for systematic and global identifier reuse in decentralized information environments. (OKKAM)
The overall goal of the OKKAM project is to enable the Web of Entities, a global digital space for publishing and managing information about entities, where every entity is uniquely identified, and links between entities can be explicitly specified and exploited in a variety of scenarios.
The overall goal of the OKKAM project is to enable the Web of Entities, a global digital space for publishing and managing information about entities, where every entity is uniquely identified, and links between entities can be explicitly specified and exploited in a variety of scenarios.
The main of the research group’s work is focused on the design and the implementation of a storage system consisting of a primary and a secondary storage. Strategies on relating the primary and secondary storage have to be developed based on heuristics. The primary storage provides fast access to a limited amount of attribute value pairs, which proved to be a good discriminator of OKKAM entities. The secondary storage covers the complete and potentially distributed collection of attribute-value pairs. Thus, the primary storage is a limited view on the secondary storage. To achieve high availability the primary storage will be replicated but require a single access point providing load balancing between the different primary storages. The performance of the designed infrastructure will be planned and monitored to meet the requirements of the applications built on top of the OKKAM infrastructure.
A scalable and sustainable infrastructure for the Web of Entities, based on the systematic reuse of global entity identifiers with a large-scale, distributed Entity Repository as its backbone. An operational, highly available infrastructure providing a large-scale distributed storage service and reliable services for enabling the global reuse of universal identifiers. Focused on but not limited to three central applications: 1. An innovative and operational entity-centric search engine. 2. A set of entity-centric authoring tools. 3. A product-centered organizational knowledge management solution.
OKKAM aims at building a global infrastructure which will enable the creation of the Web of Entities.One of the main features of the project is that it has a big potential for triggering new ideas and developments for innovative and productivity-enhancing entity-centric services for the knowledge society. In this section, we will sketch the foreseeable impacts of the project with respect to the European vision of a knowledge-based society as well its contributions to the Objectives and Expected Impacts listed in the Work Programme 2007-2008 for the objective Intelligent Content and Semantics (ICT-2007.4.2) within Challenge 4 (Digital Libraries and Content). However, we expect that there will be further yet unforeseen impacts and applications on top of the OKKAM infrastructure, triggered by the entity-centric approach and the reaction of the community to it (as it happened for the WWW)
GISUM (Software Engineering Group of the University of Malaga)
Code PAIDI: TIC136
Antonio Maña Gomez. Socio.
Universidad de Málaga
Budget of Andalusian group: € 626,982.40
- University of Trento
- University of Hannover
- SAP
- Elzevier B.V.
- Expert Systems SPA
- Europe Unlimited SA
- Nacional Microelectronics Appli¡cation Centre
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
- National University of of Ireland, Dublin
- Universidad de Málaga
- University of Reading
- INMARK
- Agenzia Nacionale Stampa Associata
