User:Barend Mons/Concept Web Alliance

The Alliance
the Concept Web Alliance is a growing group of like-minded scientists around the world, who set out to create the Concept Web – a dynamic, interactive fabric of concepts and their relationships. The Concept Web is constructed from, inter alia, research literature, Internet databases and other web sites together with off-line resources. The aim of creating the Concept Web is to remove both redundancy and ambiguity from available knowledge in order to help deal with information overload, to semantically ‘connect’ concepts, and so to maximize the potential for knowledge discovery.

in the Concept Web Alliance, the following mission statement has been formulated:

“To enable an open collaborative environment to jointly address the challenges associated with high volume scholarly and professional data production, storage, interoperability and analyses for knowledge discovery.

relationship to the Semantic Web
The Semantic Web and the Semantic Web Consortium have been involved in the semantic linking of references to specific concepts in web pages and applications, mainly aimed at removing ambiguity and better semantic search. However, the redundancy of information in the curren tweb i sone of the major problems and needs to be reduced as well.