THESEUS Application Scenarios
The THESEUS research programme represents an important contribution to
the creation of a new internet-based knowledge infrastructure that means
faster and more effective online knowledge processing in future. One of
the main subjects being researched is the development of semantic
technologies that are capable of recognising and classifying the content
and meaning of information (words, pictures or sounds). These
technologies allow ‘smart’ computer programmes to recognise and
replicate the context in which data has been stored. In addition,
computers can also draw logical conclusions from content by applying
rules and classification principles, and subsequently recognise and
construct links between various items of information from diverse
sources.
THESEUS is an umbrella organisation that unites
researchers from the public and industry sectors, who are now
collaborating to develop and design innovative basic technologies and
technical standards. Consortium members from the field of industry will
develop prototypes of the new technologies and test them in 6
application scenarios. The purpose of the tests is to find short-term
ways of converting the new technologies into innovative tools,
commercially-viable services and potentially profitable business models
for the World Wide Web and other internet-based networks.
ALEXANDRIA – A consumer orientated knowledge database
CONTENTUS – Safeguarding cultural heritage
The THESEUS application scenario CONTENTUS is an important contribution to the preservation of cultural heritage and the safeguarding of cultural diversity in Europe. By using CONTENTUS, cultural institutions in Germany and other European countries will be able to integrate their cultural assets and works of art in an innovative and structured framework and make them freely accessible to a wide audience online. read more...
MEDICO – Towards Scalable Semantic Image Search in Medicine
ORDO – Organising digital information
The application scenario ORDO is intended to research and develop semantic technology, thereby creating new services and software tools that will enable users to organise their entire store of digital information. As the organisation process will be automatic, it will also be transparent, and require no effort by the user. High scalability will make problem-free processing of extremely large quantities of data, and graphic visualisation of that data in knowledge model form, possible. Unlike the solutions used up till now, this personalised linking allows unstructured and structured data to be organised in a uniform manner, making efficient, individual knowledge management possible. read more...
PROCESSUS – Optimisation of business processes
TEXO – Business Webs in the Internet of Services
The aim of the TEXO application scenario is to provide businesses with an infrastructure for new web-based applications and services, on the basis of service oriented architecture (SOA); this infrastructure will be independent of any individual company and provide a flexible, semantic-driven interface between service providers and their customers. read more...




