The goal of the SEALS project is to provide an independent, open, scalable, extensible and sustainable infrastructure (the SEALS Platform) that allows the remote evaluation of semantic technologies thereby providing an objective comparison of the different existing semantic technologies. This will allow researchers and users to effectively compare the available technologies, helping them to select appropriate technologies and advancing the state of the art through continuous evaluation.

The SEALS Platform will provide an integrated set of semantic technology evaluation services and test suites. They will be used in two public and worldwide evaluation campaigns. The results of these evaluation campaigns will be used to create semantic technology roadmaps identifying sets of efficient and compatible tools for developing large-scale semantic applications.

The semantic technology evaluation services will initially be available for five different types of technologies (ontology engineering tools, storage and reasoning systems, matching tools, semantic search tools, and semantic web service tools) and for different evaluation criteria (interoperability, scalability, etc.). The platform will provide easy and free access to the evaluation services and to the results of the evaluations performed.

UPM role in SEALS

UPM is the coordinator of the project SEALS and it is responsible for providing management and administrative support to the SEALS consortium. UPM is also leading the implementation of the SEALS platform where we are responsible for the development of the two core components of the system. In addition to that, UPM is also participating in the organization of the two worlwide evaluation campaigns that have been planned and in the rest of dissemination activities. Finally, UPM is very active in the definition of evaluations for testing semantic-based applications.

Participants

People involved in the development  of SEALS project are:

Publications and main results

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