SEKT

SEKT (Semantically Enabled Knowledge Technology) is the name of a sponsored by::European Union research project going from 2004 to 2006. It is lead by BT Group plc. Its goal is to bring together experts in knowledge discovery, ontology and metadata technologies, and human language technologies and to combine it into one platform to enable building semantic applications. Technical director of the project is Rudi Studer.

Project partners

 * has partner::BT Group plc: project coordinator, semantic knowledge access, digital library case study and exploitation
 * has partner::Empolis GmbH: integration platform and IT experts case study
 * has partner::Jožef Stefan Institute: knowledge discovery and machine learning
 * has partner::University of Karlsruhe: technical lead, ontology management and methodology
 * has partner::University of Sheffield: natural language technologies
 * has partner::Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck: ontology mapping research
 * has partner::iSoco: visualisation and legal experts case study
 * has partner::Kea-Pro: training and usability
 * has partner::Ontoprise GmbH: OntoStudio platform and mapping components
 * has partner::Sirma Group: massive annotation and upper level ontology
 * Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: reasoning with inconsistency
 * has partner::Autonomous University of Barcelona: domain experts for the legal experts case study
 * Siemens Business Services: IT experts case study