Mission Statement

It is the mission of SDK project cluster to strengthen European research
and industry in the fields of Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services and
to work towards international standardization together with the US-based
DAML initiative. It does so through ensuring close cooperation between
three major European research projects in the area of Semantic Web and
Semantic Web Services: SEKT, DIP, and Knowledge Web. SDK promotes the
projects’ research results to both industry and academia through joint
dissemination thereby strengthening the position of and providing a
competitive advantage to European research and European industry and
strengthening the world-wide research and standardization in Semantic and
Semantic Web Services. Industry is supported both on the short-term and on
the long-term, thereby enabling immediate implementation of Semantic Web
and Semantic Web Services technologies and ensuring a lasting development
of Semantic Web and Semantic Web Services technologies through
standardization, education and research.