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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy for Mac OS X (vers 1st September 2004), see www.w3.org" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" /> <title>Semantic Web Advanced Development for Europe (SWAD-Europe)</title> <link href="https://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/style/swad-europe-showcase.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <style type="text/css">/* <![CDATA[*/ body { font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; } #leftcontent { position: absolute; left:10px; top:20px; width:200px; background:#fff; margin-right:15px; padding-bottom:20px; } #rightcontent { position: absolute; left:250px; top:20px; background:#fff; padding-right: 50px; } #mainMenu { background-color: #EEE; border: 1px solid #CCC; color: #000; width: 203px; } #menuList { margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 15px; } li.menubar { background: url(http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/showcase/square.gif) no-repeat 0em 0.3em; line-height: 1.5em; 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The <a href="https://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/factsheet">project factsheet</a> and <a href="https://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/plan/proj_objectives.html">objectives</a> are available, and an <a href= "http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw59/brickley.html">overview of the project</a> written for ERCIM news in September 2004.</p> <h2>Documents</h2> <p>The <a href="https://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/plan/workplan.html">workplan</a> of the project and <a href="https://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/reports/intro.html">All reports</a> from the project are now available.</p> <h2>Project Team</h2> <p>SWAD-Europe was an EU-funded project, part of the <a href= "http://www.cordis.lu/ist/">Information Society Technologies</a> (IST-7) programme. The project was designed to support W3C's Semantic Web <a href="https://www.w3.org/2001/sw/">Activity</a> through research, demonstrators and outreach efforts conducted by the five project partners. The project consortium consisted of ERCIM (for W3C), ILRT (University of Bristol), HP Labs, RAL/CCLRC, and Stilo. The workplan comprised 15 workpackages combining research, demonstrators, outreach materials, software and services totaling 332 person months over 2.5 years, beginning May 2002 and ending October 2004. Project coordination was shared between ILRT (administration and project management) and W3C/ERCIM (content and overall direction).</p> <p>SWAD-Europe supported the work of 2-3 members of the European W3C Semantic Web team (via ERCIM in France), connecting SWAD-Europe to other W3C Semantic Web <a href="https://www.w3.org/2000/01/sw/">development projects</a> and the wider work of the W3C team. While the project workplan focussed largely on supporting W3C's Semantic Web Activity, the project was a collaborative effort, drawing on existing XML and RDF expertise at each of the five partners.<br /></p> </div>  </body> </html>