Next Generation Internet Discovery and Search

Since the inception of the internet, applications and services using the internet have evolved significantly. In addition the number of devices connected to the internet, the creation of vast data lakes as well as distributed data cooperatives has made searching and discovering data and generally resources a difficult, yet very important field of research, development and innovation.

Today it is even more important to be able to find, represent and ultimately make sense of internet based data sources and resources without the need of relying on non-transparent organisations offering such services, potentially violating privacy and trust.

The vision of the NGI Search project is to change the way we use and experience search & discover data and resources in general on the internet and web. This includes new user interfaces for searching and representing data (e.g. voice and image based), heterogeneous data sources (e.g. IoT, semantic data, multimedia, social media as well as traditional websites), new methodologies (e.g. machine learning and natural language processing) in generic context and specific use cases (e.g. industry 4.0, health, social media).