SEKT

For the German sparkling wine, see Sekt

SEKT (Semantically Enabled Knowledge Technology) was a European FP6 research project going from 2004 to 2006. It was led by BT Group plc. It was aiming 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. The project director is John Davies of BT, and the technical director is Rudi Studer.

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