The final Open Call 5 NGI Searchers are announced

Date: October 7, 2024 - 10:00-11:30
Meeting: OC5 KickOff Online Conference

The 5th Open Call for the NGI Search Project has attracted over 220 applications, with 121 formally submitted from 34 countries!

This 5th call for submissions to the NGI Search project began on May 29, 2024, and lasted two months. Throughout this period, 228 applicants initiated proposals aiming to obtain up to €150K in equity-free funding, hoping to join the NGI Search project.

Where are these applications coming from?

NGI Search has received submissions from 34 countries, which include:

Enhanced Geocoder for gvSIG Online: Improving Geospatial Address Search

EGGO is an open source geocoding microservice designed for integration with gvSIG Online, enabling organizations to set up their own customizable and interoperable geocoding infrastructure. EGGO supports multiple geocoding engines (e.g., Nominatim, Photon, Google) and complies with open standards for spatial data infrastructures, empowering users with enhanced control, performance, and data sovereignty.

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FörderFunke

The matching concept behind FörderFunke turns searching conceptually on its head.
A person's profile filters various information spaces and "attracts" relevant things.
You don't have to know a benefit exists.
You don't have to search for it.
You don't have to check your eligibility.
Instead, relevant information finds you automatically.
The team focuses on state benefits for now, but it wants to expand its scope beyond that, relying on Open Source, Privacy by Design and Linked Open Data.

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Ma Dada UX

In this round, the MaDada platform, that makes more information from French public authorities discoverable to the citizens, will introduce technical improvements, such as a one-click request submission template and enhanced request visualization, to further streamline the user experience.

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Open Politics

The Open Politics open source political intelligence web application enables interaction with political data, from geospatial analysis to AI-guided decomposition of key issues, actors and interests and retrieval of relevant articles.
The database is reinforced by qualitative methods (e.g., tool-equipped AI chains) designed to enable the data to answer the most complex questions in the field of political science.

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Open Search Ecosystem for Technology

OSE is leveraging ontology tools to enable editing of distributed standards, such as "Open Know-How". It is build as a stack of tools for a distributed way to index and search hardware. This allows people to find, research and combine existing technology, and make its meta-data available for powerful search applications based on Linked Open Data.

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OSCAR4US (Open Source Scalable and Continuous Augmented Reality Services for Urban Spaces) 

The OSCAR4US project, coordinated by Open AR Cloud Europe gUG, developed and advanced the Open Spatial Computing Platform (OSCP) to support city-scale location-based Augmented reality experiences. OSCP was extended in three areas: (1) OpenVPS, an open visual positioning service, (2) continuous, context-aware discovery of services and content, and (3) a new Reality Modeling Language (RML), a machine-readable description of the physical environment.

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QLever (SPARQL 1.1 Compliance) 

QLever is a highly efficient graph database that can handle RDF datasets of hundreds of billions of triples on a standard PC. It also shines on smaller datasets, processing queries faster than other engines.
NGI Search will allow an even wider usage of QLever through its compliance with the SPARQL 1.1 standard, while maintaining its high efficiency.

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