Project : acacia

Section: Software

Keywords : Information Retrieval , World Wide Web , XML , RDF , RDFS , RDF Schema , Conceptual Graph , ontologies .

CORESE

Participants : Olivier Corby [correspondant], Olivier Savoie, Francis Avnaim.

Description.

Corese (COnceptual REsource Search Engine) is an RDF(S)-dedicated engine based on conceptual graphs. It enables to load RDFS schemas and RDF annotations and to transform them into conceptual graph formalism. It then enables to query the base of annotations thus created, by using the projection operator offered by the conceptual graph formalism. The result obtained is translated into RDF to be returned back in response to the request.

Corese takes benefits of an INRIA operation of software development (ODL) intended to improve quality of the implementation in order to support its diffusion.

http://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/soft/corese

Applications.

Corese is used as search engine:

• for the KMP project on skills management with Telecom Valley,

• in the Ligne de Vie project on health care network,

• in the MEAT project on experiment memory on transcriptome analysis,

• in our recent co-operation launched with EADS.

Corese was the cornerstone of four co-operations of the Acacia team:

• the IST project, CoMMA (Corporate Memory Management through Agents) [46],[11] [23],

• the SAMOVAR project with Renault [13], [49] [48],

• the co-operative research action ESCRIRE [28] [29] [20],

• the Color action Aprobatiom with CSTB.

Diffusion.

• Corese was registered at APP.

• Corese was made available to:

  • Renault,

  • ATOS Origin,

  • T-Systems NOVA (Deutsche Telekom),

  • CSTB,

  • CSELT (Telecom Italia),

  • LIRMM,

  • Mainline team at ESSI,

  • CETU (Centre d'étude des tunnels du Ministère de l'Equipement).

  • University of Santiago Chili,

  • ENST Bretagne,

  • UTC Troyes,

  • Facultad de Informatica, LSIIS

  • Zuhlke Engineering AG, CH

  • W3C Group on the Social Meaning of RDF Graphs, Deltek Systems, Inc. USA

  • CETU

• In 2003, Corese was presented in demonstration to:

  • EADS,

  • Schneider,

  • Tech Cico team of UTT Troyes,

  • ENST Bretagne,

  • Steering committee of the KMP project at Sophia Antipolis,

  • University of Santiago in Chili, Detartment of Economic Sciences,

  • The first Workshop of the Colors and CNRS Specific Action WebLearn.

• The work on Corese was published in [3] [4].