R&D Projects on Semantic Web Services, Architectures and Systems

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2. NaturalEurope: Natural History & Environmental Cultural Heritage in European Digital Libraries for Education

In an era where natural history and environmental education inadequacy in formal and informal contexts is becoming an increasingly challenging issue, harvesting the potential of European digital libraries appears as a very attractive option. However, an impressive abundance of high quality digital content that is available in Natural History Museums (NHMs) around Europe remains largely unexploited due to a number of barriers, such as: the lack of interconnection and interoperability between the management systems of NHMs, the lack of centralised access through a European point of reference like Europeana, as well as the inefficiency of current content organization and the metadata used.

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1. DBE: Digital Business Ecosystem

The overall objective of the DBE is aimed at proving Europe with a recognized advantage in innovative software application development by its SME industry, launching a disruptive technology paradigm for the creation of a digital business ecosystems for SMEs and software providers thus improving their value network. An open-source distributed environment will support the spontaneous evolution, adaptation and composition of software components - which also embed business rules - and services allowing SMEs, that are solution and e-business service providers, to cooperate in production of components and applications adapted to local business needs.

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