Call topic: Applications of an Open Web Index
OpenWebSearch.eu aims at building and piloting a foundation for commercially exploitable applications based on a European Open Web Index. Call #2 hence particularly addresses proposals for applications of the Open Web Index. OpenWebSearch.eu project will provide access to both, pre-processed and indexed data in the Terabyte range and deliver continuous, daily updates until the end of the project. Successful applicants should use and exploit the data provided in innovative applications scenarios or research topics.
OpenWebSearch.eu consortium asks for technical, algorithmic and software contributions, focused on developing potential components and applications of the pilot open search infrastructure, including machine learning or AI models.
Successful applications will technically define and develop new search and discovery applications, content analysis methods, search paradigms, data products or extend the platform in relevant ways.
We address innovators and business that (i) either build search verticals on top of our pilot infrastructure thus demonstrating its applicability, or (ii) extend the pilot infrastructure to relevant areas, like new content analysis methods, or (iii) develop interesting data products on top of the Open Web Index. Results must be made available as Open Source and/or Open Data, with documentations or experimental work published in as Open Access.
Topics could belong to the following areas, but are not limited to
- Innovative vertical search applications (e.g. Kids search, mobile search, science search, argument search);
- Retrieval augmented generation, conversational search and search based on Large Language models;
- Geo-location based search and hybrid search (i.e. search settings that combine specialised data and web data);
- New search scenarios like personal search, human-centric search, corporate search, hybrid search, privacy aware search;
- Approaches for transparent and privacy aware searching;
- New search paradigms, search interactions and search user interfaces;
- Evaluation or simulation of search systems;
- Standards for Open Search;
- Efficient pre-processing and indexing methods like vector embeddings, content quality estimates;
- Web Analytics at different scale.
