Last modified: April 2007

IST World is a Specific Support Action (SSA) project, funded within the Sixth Framework Programme - IST (Information Society Technology) of the Commission of the European Communities - Contract No: FP6-2004-IST-3 - 015823, which started in April 2006 and will end with September 2007. For more information about the IST World project visit the project site: http://ist-world.dfki.de/

The IST World portal is built on the CERIF standard and currently contains the following data:

Automated Data Collection:
With the latest portal release in April 2007, the CORDIS FP5 and FP6 data have been cleaned by
supervised machine learning methods with a major focus on duplicate identification of organisations
within FP5 and FP6. Cleaning of the crawled GoogleScholar data is foreseen in a next step.
 

• CORDIS FP7 crawled from CORDIS.
   
• CORDIS FP6 crawled from CORDIS, automatically cleaned within IST World.
  [organisations and projects]
   
• CORDIS FP5 crawled from CORDIS, automatically cleaned within IST World.
  [organisations and projects] crawled, automatically cleaned.
   
• Slovenian Dataset creawled from the public SiCRIS website.
  [organisations, experts, projects]
   
• GoogleScholar (Machine Learning domain) crawled. Not yet cleaned!
  [publications' authors + titles]
   
• Pascal crawled from the Pascal Network of Excellence
  (Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling, and Computational Learning).
  [organisations, experts, projects, publications]
   

External Data Provision:
We are very grateful to the following organisations for their valuable data provided, and for
their interest and support of the IST World project:

• Singleimage, UK manually cleaned and provided FP5 + FP6 IST data.
  [organisations and projects]
   
• EPRI-start project transferred their data by the end of the project.
  [SMEs in NMSs]
   
• Hungarian (HunCRIS) CERIF-based repository transferred their IST related data.
  [organisations, experts, projects]
   
• Russian (SININ) Techbrid project transferred their data by the end of the project.
  [organisations and projects in the Social Sciences]
  
• Serbian data
  [organisations, experts, publications]

National Repositories or Collections:
We are very grateful to the IST World consortium members for data provision of the:

• Bulgarian repository
  [organisations, experts, projects, publications]
   
• Estonian CERIF-based repository
  [organisations, experts, projects, publications]
   
• International Language Technology repository (LT World)
  [organisations, experts, projects]
   
• Czech Republic collection
  [organisations, publications]
   
• Cyprus collection
  [organisations, projects]
   
• Hungarian collection
  [publications]
   
• Latvian collection
  [organisations, experts, projects]
   
• Lithuanian collection
  [organisations, projects]
   
• Polish collection
  [organisations, projects]
   
• Romanian collection
  [projects, organisations, experts]
   
• Slovak collection
  [experts, organisations, projects]
   
• Turkish collection
  [SMEs, projects, experts]

IST World Consortium

The project consortium is formed by DFKI, Institute Jozef Stefan, Ontotext Lab (Sirma Group Corp.), RTD Talos, Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Archimedes Foundation, Computer and Automation Research Institute (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science (University of Latvia), Lithuanian Innovation Centre, Projects in Motion, Silesian University of Technology, National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, Slovak University of Technology, TUBITAK, The Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils.