In early February, FOSDEM (Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting) happened in Brussels, as it does every year, since 2000 as OSDEM and from 2001 as FOSDEM, (at the request of Richard Stallman). Focussing on free and open-source software development and the F(L)OSS movement in general, FOSDEM enables developers to meet up and present their latest applications of free and open-source software. Saturday, the first day of the conference, I attended the keynote lecture by Laura Durieux entitled ‘Where have the women of tech history gone?’, which provided a rich overview of frequently overlooked or forgotten contributions by women to the history of technology. (https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2850-where-have-the-women-of-tech-history-gone-/) As most now realise, Ada Lovelace is considered the first programmer and importantly for the field of search, in the 1970s Karen Spärck Jones focused on NLP and information retrieval, developing TF-IDF (term document frequency), the relevance of specific keyword in the text that is used by most search engines (and SEO).
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Jun 11 2024
OW2Con'24 showcases NGI Search Final Open Call
Date: 11-12 June 2024
Conference: OW2 Annual Conference
Place: Paris Châtillon, Orange Gardens
Number of attendees expected: 200
Mirko Presser, professor at Aarhus University and NGI Search coordinator, will foster OW2con'24 attendees to study the final NGI Search open call running from early June to the end of July 2024. He'll give key insights to open source software designers about the relevant research topics and will summarize the fourth prior call outcomes including examples of project beneficiaries invited at this conference.
Apr 17 2024
StandUp Meeting #3
Date & Time: 17/04/2024 at 10:00 CEST
Place: Big Blue Button remote meeting
Attendees: 35
Audio presentations of TrustSearch Project, LabDiscovery Engine, and MetaVision ...
Mar 21 2024
AlpOSS 2024
Date: 21 March 2024
Place: Echirolles, France
Website: https://alposs.fr/
Programme: https://alposs.fr/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Programme-AlpOSS-2024.pdf
Join the OW2 booth for more information about NGI Search final open call (June-July 2024) and NGI Zero Commons Fund first open call.
At 12:05, Pierre-Yves Gibello, OW2 CEO, will talk about "Your project with NGI Zero Commons"
Take this opportunity to finance your searching open source innovations and/or Next Generation Internet digital commons. ...
Mar 10 2024
Infosys 2024 Congress in Athens
Event: Evolving Internet 2024
Date: March 10-14, 2024
Place: Athens, Greece
More: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2024/INTERNET24.html
In the framework of Infosys 2024 Congress, in parallel with the Evolving Internet event in Athens, the NGI Search project led the OSS LLMs scientific conference.
LLMSDI: OSS LLMs and decentralized systems for Search, Discovery and Indexing on the Internet
Chair: Ph.D. Aurora González-Vidal, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Murcia, Spain
Co-Chair: Ph.D. Mirko Presser, Associate Professor, Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University. Denmark ...
Feb 20 2024
Open Call #4 First Webinar
Date: 9/2/2024 9:00-10:00 CET.
Topic: Open Call Webinar OC4.1
Venue: Online
In this webinar, you will discover the list of topics for this fourth Open Call, its scope, and ten services offered to beneficiairies. Join us and discover how, when and where to apply in order to receive up to €150,000 along with business and technical support during up to 12 months.
Ready to become an NGI Searcher? Attend this webinar presented by Mirko Presser, NGI Search Project lead.
Feb 15 2024
Stand-Up Meeting #2
Date: February 15
Place: Online
Projects: ChatDKG, WAISE, VERIF.AI.
NGI-Search monthly Stand-up meetings have the aim to leverage the NGI Search community and to identify possible synergies between NGI Searchers. It also offers projects the opportunity to showcase and disseminate about their technologies.
Click on the name of each project below to access to the podcasts and discover what it is all about:
Check the project podcasts 📢
Feb 04 2024
(Re)Search Dev and Policy @ FOSDEM and OFFDEM 2024
Event: FOSDEM 2024 (and OFFDEM 2024)
Place: Brussels Free University (ULB)
Author: Renée RIDGWAY, PhD, Postdoctoral researcher, Aarhus University
Department: SHAPE Centre (School of Communication and Culture Department of Digital Design and Information Studies)/BTECH
Jan 18 2024
The Open Call 3 NGI Searchers are announced
Date: Monday 17 April 2023
Time: 10:00-12:00
Place: KickOff Web Conference
This by invitation only event kicks off the NGI Search project beneficiaries from the open call #3.
Dec 21 2023
Stand-Up Meeting #1
Date: 21/12/2023
Place: Online
Projects: OnMyDisk, TalentLayer, MaDada.
NGI-Search Stand-up monthly meetings have the aim to leverage the NGI Search community and to identify possible synergies between NGI Searchers. It also offers projects the opportunity to showcase and disseminate about their technologies.
Check the project podcasts 📢.
Dec 19 2023
Econet Webinar
Date: 19/12/2023, 1:00PM
Title: Oportunidades de financiación en cascada / Cascade Funding Opportunities
Language: Spanish
Programa
- Bienvenida
- Proyecto EUROBIN, by Antonio Salvador, FundingBox,
- Proyecto Nephele, by Antonio Salvador, FundingBox,
- Proyecto Yarget-X, by Antonio Salvador, FundingBox,
- Proyecto NGI Search, by Jorge Garcia, FundingBox,
- Proyecto StandICT.eu2026, by Raquel Carro, Australo,
- Proyecto Cortex2, by Raquel Carro, Australo,
- Proyecto SE3 Start, by Carmen Serna, Australo.
- Sesión práctica
- Ronda de preguntas
- Cierre de la sesión