SMILA - SeMantic Information Logistics Architecture

Unleashing the potential of unstructured data sources

The amount and diversity of information is growing exponentially, mainly in the area of unstructured data, like emails, text files, blogs, images etc. Poor data accessibility, user rights integration and the lack of semantic meta data are constraining factors for building next generation enterprise search and other document centric applications. Missing standards result in proprietary solutions with huge short and long term cost.

SMILA is an extensible framework for building search solutions to access unstructured information in the enterprise. Besides providing essential infrastructure components and services, SMILA also delivers ready-to-use add-on components, like connectors to most relevant data sources. Using the framework as their basis will enable developers to concentrate on the creation of higher value solutions, like semantic driven applications etc.

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News

0.5 M2 is out!

Right on time, today on 29th May we have published our second milestone 0.5 M2. The major new features are the compound management and two new data source connectors: RSS and Atom agent. So give it a try and tell us what you think.

Our EclipseCon's session recording is now available on Eclipse Live

You couldn't make it to our EclipseCon session? No problem! A couple of days ago Eclipse foundation released the recording of our talk SMILA - make sense of your data.

SMILA's first milestone is out!

Just as planed, today on 23rd March we have published our first milestone 0.5 M1. So if you are interested in SMILA please try it out and give us your feedback.

Meet us at EclipseCon 2009 and see SMILA in action!

In case that you'll be visiting EclipseCon 2009 we kindly invite you to come to our long talk SMILA - make sense of your data.
Apart from giving the short introduction to the project, the focus of this talk will be the demonstration of several example use cases which can be realized with SMILA. In brief: We wanted this time to concentrate on really cool stuff - for example indexing and search of chemical compounds (molecules) and their visualization.

SMILA initiative gains new supporters

After getting support from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) right after SMILA's creation review, now we are very pleased to announce that SMILA has got two new supporters: Attensity and living-e.

This is the short excerpt from the official press release:
"Retroactive to January 1, 2009, the initiative gains two significant semantic technology partners on the occasion of the Open Source Meets Business Congress (27. - 29. January 2009, Nuremberg, Germany) with Attensity, Inc., from Palo Alto, California and living-e AG from Karlsruhe, Germany. Both companies will continue development of their products based on the SMILA open architecture and infrastructure standard - Attensity with semantic text analytics technologies and living-e with its self-learning solutions for automated, intelligent responses to e-mails, SMS, faxes and letters."