From Full Text Search to Semantic Web: The Infofox Project

Infofox is a project launched by the Ecademy, the National Network of Excellence of the Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences for e-business and e-government. The paper discusses an envisioned improvement of the service level of the Ecademy Web site, an information portal which is set to integrate valuable information from the different member schools. The goal of the Infofox project is the development of an intelligent search engine. In order to fully exploit the potential of the information provided by the Ecademy members, the Infofox project team will need to implement aspects of a Semantic Web – namely an ontology built upon a joint classification scheme and a set of inference rules. The RIP paper presents the basic concept and the results of the first phase of the project.