The sum of knowledge – online and accessible, no less | ICT Results

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European researchers are creating new technology that could, ultimately, make accessible the sum of humankind’s knowledge. Hundreds of organisations and millions of documents are already linked to this “United Nations of knowledge”.

The EU-funded DRIVER project’s key result is a technological breakthrough that enables institutions to link repositories of knowledge together into one huge, networked online ‘library of libraries’.

The researchers have created software, called D-NET, that can link information collected on diverse computer platforms, using legacy software which can still ‘talk’ or work with older systems in more than 25 European languages!
The technological breakthrough achieved in DRIVER was key, according to the project’s coordinator, Professor Yannis Ioannidis, but another fundamental aim was to oversee the integration of various repositories scattered across the continent.

"The EU-funded DRIVER project’s key result is a technological breakthrough that enables institutions to link repositories of knowledge together into one huge, networked online ‘library of libraries’. The researchers have created software, called D-NET, that can link information collected on diverse computer platforms, using legacy software which can still ‘talk’ or work with older systems in more than 25 European languages!"

So far, over 240 institutions from 27 European countries speaking 25 languages have been linked together, creating the DRIVER Search Portal, the door to European Open Access research. It regularly harvests journal articles, books, dissertations, lectures and reports.

The portal is located at:http://search2.driver.research-infrastructures.eu/webInterface/simpleSearch.do;jsessionid=2516A054D9011CCF10F958B3DFD5D248?action=load

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