One of the WIC activities is to promote WI related new industrial solutions and standards.
Standards
- User Interests Description Vocabulary (e-FOAF: interest), proposed by International WIC Institute, University of Sheffield, and Vrije University Amsterdam under the EU 7th Framework Programe, Large Knowledge Collider Project. Its' aim is to provide a description vocabulary to describle user interests on the Web.
Platforms
- LarKC (The Large Knowledge Collider) is a platform for massive distributed incomplete reasoning that will remove the scalability barriers of currently existing reasoning systems for the Semantic Web.
Systems
- LinTY (Link Your Twitter and Yahoo!) is a personalized Web search engine that is built on top of Yahoo! search and provides personalized search results with "real-time interests from a specific user's Twitter" as a context.
- DBLP-SSE (DBLP Search Support Engine) is a search support engine that provides various supporting functionalities to help users get better search results based on DBLP.