Welcome to OKKAM - Enabling the Web of Entities

by Heiko Stoermer — last modified Apr 24, 2009 09:19 AM

OKKAM is a Large Scale Integrating Project co-funded by the European Commission (GA 215032)

WHAT

A web-scale open service called Entity Name System (ENS) for supporting the systematic reuse of identifiers for "things". Read more...

The OKKAM Consortium

"Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity" [Ockham's razor, XIV century]

"Entity identifiers should not be multiplied beyond necessity" [OKKAM's razor, XXI century]

What can you do with OKKAM?

Annotate your content through the plugins of several OKKAM-empowered tools (see our testubes).
Use our APIs to get and create globally shared IDs with your applications.

Please,

and find out more about our 5 million entity repository!

Because ...

... identifiers have always been one of the cornerstones of information and knowledge management in computer-based systems
... a service like the ENS may improve the quality of content production in professional environments
... identifiers may improve the precision and recall of existing search engines
... a new generation of entity-centric search engines can use identfiers to change the rules of information retrieval
... a global service for managing identifiers will improve the quality of user-generated content on the Web2.0
... a shared ecosystem of identifers will make web-scale mash-ups much easier and faster
... for sure you know more reasons


co-funded by the European Union