 VLDB09 (Very Large Data Bases 2009) - USETIM (Using Search Engine Technology for Information Management). For information management, databases offer precise, controlled access to data. But, they do not offer the easy-to-use search capabilities that most knowledge workers manipulate daily on sites such as Google. Access to information contained in databases is more difficult, and more restricted. One solution to this information bottleneck is to let search engines support the brunt of the work, by offloading information from the database into alternative infrastructures, such as that provided by search engine technology. Many business applications such as search, report generation and data analysis might be performed more efficiently on the replicated data without involving the native database technology, e.g. transactions. These offloaded databases, retaining some of their structure, can be recombined, mashed up, creating one-off, possibly disposable, databases, while the primary data is safe in the original database. This workshop will examine the limits and potentialities of use information retrieval and search engine technology for information management (IM) applications.
 CHORUS (Coordinated Approach to the European Effort on Audiovisual Search Engines) is a European Union-funded consortium formed to foster the communication of strategies, policies, and best practices across leading institutions, organizations, and consultancies in the multimedia content search engine industry. Consortium members, such as Exalead, are required to possess the broad range of intellectual and technological expertise and track record for successful execution, policy development, and cooperation across national, EU, and international boundaries.
 Funded by the French National Research Agency, the WebContent Project is focused on developing a flexible and generic platform for content management using semantic Web technologies to demonstrate their effectiveness when applied to real-life economic and societal issues. Exalead, with its expertise in advanced semantic tools, is a key member of the project team and will help explore applications in the aeronautical economics, food safety, strategic intelligence, and seismic event arenas.
As a member of the ALIS (Automated Legal Intelligent System) Consortium, Exalead joins top tier academics, legal professionals, and private organizations in this European Union-funded research program to address how science and technology can be used to improve the operational efficiencies within the European Union's legal system. With the consortium's focus on artificial intelligence, game theory, semantic modelling applications, Exalead brings its expertise in information access platform development to the team.
Citizen Media is an European research project to enable non-professional users to co-create networked applications and experiences with user-generated content. This project features new ways on how to exploit the huge amount of user-generated content in innovative ways to support people in their daily lives and how technology will enable social change to strongly involve users for co-creating networked applications. This work will introduce new concepts that may modify the role of stakeholders in the classical value chain for content delivery.
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