The DNA of the Open Search Foundation lies in this technical group, which formed back in May 2018 to conduct initial experiments on distributed crawling. The work is done in a vibrant open source community and in cooperation with data centers and institutions across Europe.
The Tech Group works in a networked way via workshops, conferences and expert meetings. It ensures that the initial ideas for creating and experimentally testing relevant software and system components in the area of Open Search are validated and further developed. In an ongoing exchange, the many experts involved identify and test new research approaches. In this way, an architecture is created for building an open, transparent Internet search, which is then collectively implemented for Europe.
The Tech Working Group consists of web technology experts, engineers, developers, and researchers with the goal to
OpenWebSearch.eu is currently our flagship project for conducting the heavy technology lifting. 14 renowned European research and computer centers joined forces to develop an open European infrastructure for web search. The European Commission has approved the project’s Horizon Europe funding of 8,5 million euros.
Open Console is an NLNet funded project that aims to combine information from owners, webmasters and third-parties on a single website. This includes for example legal information, licensing information, spam information and many more.
A potential key building block of an Open Search infrastructure: The Serci SearchEngine project will provide an open-source web search engine. When fully deployed, the Serci Suite will consist of a WebCrawler, an Indexer with index tools, and a query server.
The neuropil™ cybersecurity mesh is an approach to establish security and privacy by design principles by default into every IT landscape. Search as a fundamental capability for IT systems has been established in a NGI ZeroDiscovery project with the help of the nlnet foundation.
