Qitera
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Qitera is a transatlantic technology company developing semantic and social search
solutions for enterprises and consumers. The company was founded in 2007 by serial entrepreneurs Joerg Lamprecht, Rene Seeber and Carlo Velten. Qitera has offices in San Francisco, California
and Kassel
, Germany
.
that could enable people to share knowledge in its purest form. Inspired by the artwork of Mark Lombardi
, Qitera has built a technology platform based on semantic web
standards that empowers users to connect and search people, places, products and organizations. The first product, a semantic micro-blogging
service, was released as lab project. Qitera is a privately held company and financed by its founders and business angels.
engine by saving, sharing and commenting all types of web content. The service is focused on collaboration
in trusted groups and networks.
Qitera will release an enterprise version of its service in Q1-09. The real-time collaboration platform will help companies to improve team work, knowledge sharing
and enterprise search
. The enterprise 2.0
product will be delivered as software-as-a-service (Saas) and supports Office-integration.
that was envisioned by Tim Berners-Lee
. Based on the new markup language RDF (Resource Description Framework
) and other components (web ontology language
, SPARQL
, linked data
) the semantic web will add a new layer of meaning to the web so that applications and search engines can reason across multiple data sources to deliver more relevant results. Other companies in the field are Metaweb
, Radar Networks
, Connectbeam
, and FastNeuron.
Qitera combines semantic infrastructure with social web technologies to leverage existing user behavior and data sources. Enterprise customers use Qitera's social search algorithms to improve existing enterprise search platforms.
- Enterprise Social Software
- Social Search
- Enterprise Search
• Qitera Blog - Qitera blog
Social search
Social search or a social search engine is a type of web search that takes into account the Social Graph of the person initiating the search query...
solutions for enterprises and consumers. The company was founded in 2007 by serial entrepreneurs Joerg Lamprecht, Rene Seeber and Carlo Velten. Qitera has offices in San Francisco, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
and Kassel
Kassel
Kassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
.
History
Qitera was founded in mid 2007 with the intention to build a new information architectureInformation Architecture
Information architecture is the art of expressing a model or concept of information used in activities that require explicit details of complex systems. Among these activities are library systems, Content Management Systems, web development, user interactions, database development, programming,...
that could enable people to share knowledge in its purest form. Inspired by the artwork of Mark Lombardi
Mark Lombardi
Mark Lombardi was an American Neo-Conceptualist and an abstract artist who specialized in drawings attempting to document financial and political frauds by power brokers, and in general 'the uses and abuses of power'.- Biography :...
, Qitera has built a technology platform based on semantic web
Semantic Web
The Semantic Web is a collaborative movement led by the World Wide Web Consortium that promotes common formats for data on the World Wide Web. By encouraging the inclusion of semantic content in web pages, the Semantic Web aims at converting the current web of unstructured documents into a "web of...
standards that empowers users to connect and search people, places, products and organizations. The first product, a semantic micro-blogging
Micro-blogging
Microblogging is a broadcast medium in the form of blogging. A microblog differs from a traditional blog in that its content is typically smaller in both actual and aggregate file size...
service, was released as lab project. Qitera is a privately held company and financed by its founders and business angels.
Products
In December 2008 Qitera has launched a first consumer web service that lets uses build their own personal and social searchSocial search
Social search or a social search engine is a type of web search that takes into account the Social Graph of the person initiating the search query...
engine by saving, sharing and commenting all types of web content. The service is focused on collaboration
Collaboration
Collaboration is working together to achieve a goal. It is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together to realize shared goals, — for example, an intriguing endeavor that is creative in nature—by sharing...
in trusted groups and networks.
Qitera will release an enterprise version of its service in Q1-09. The real-time collaboration platform will help companies to improve team work, knowledge sharing
Knowledge sharing
Knowledge sharing is an activity through which knowledge is exchanged among people, friends, or members of a family, a community or an organization....
and enterprise search
Enterprise search
Enterprise search is the practice of making content from multiple enterprise-type sources, such as databases and intranets, searchable to a defined audience.-Enterprise search summary:...
. The enterprise 2.0
Enterprise 2.0
Enterprise 2.0 is the use of "Web 2.0" technologies within an organization to enable or streamline business processes while enhancing collaboration - connecting people through the use of social-media tools. Enterprise 2.0 aims to help employees, customers and suppliers collaborate, share, and...
product will be delivered as software-as-a-service (Saas) and supports Office-integration.
Technology
Qitera develops technologies and applications for the emerging semantic webSemantic Web
The Semantic Web is a collaborative movement led by the World Wide Web Consortium that promotes common formats for data on the World Wide Web. By encouraging the inclusion of semantic content in web pages, the Semantic Web aims at converting the current web of unstructured documents into a "web of...
that was envisioned by Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, , also known as "TimBL", is a British computer scientist, MIT professor and the inventor of the World Wide Web...
. Based on the new markup language RDF (Resource Description Framework
Resource Description Framework
The Resource Description Framework is a family of World Wide Web Consortium specifications originally designed as a metadata data model...
) and other components (web ontology language
Web Ontology Language
The Web Ontology Language is a family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies.The languages are characterised by formal semantics and RDF/XML-based serializations for the Semantic Web...
, SPARQL
SPARQL
SPARQL is an RDF query language; its name is an acronym that stands for SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language. It was made a standard by the RDF Data Access Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium, and considered as one of the key technologies of semantic web...
, linked data
Linked Data
In computing, linked data describes a method of publishing structured data so that it can be interlinked and become more useful. It builds upon standard Web technologies such as HTTP and URIs, but rather than using them to serve web pages for human readers, it extends them to share information in a...
) the semantic web will add a new layer of meaning to the web so that applications and search engines can reason across multiple data sources to deliver more relevant results. Other companies in the field are Metaweb
Metaweb
Metaweb Technologies, Inc. was a United States company based in San Francisco that developed Freebase, described as an "open, shared database of the world's knowledge". The company was founded by Danny Hillis in July, 2005, and operated in stealth mode until 2007. Metaweb was acquired by Google in...
, Radar Networks
Radar Networks
Radar Networks is a San Francisco based company developing semantic web applications for the general public. The company was founded in 2003 by Nova Spivack and Kristinn R. Thórisson .- History :...
, Connectbeam
Connectbeam
Connectbeam was a company based in Mountain View, California that provided enterprise social software. The company provided two core services: social bookmarking and aggregation of links and metadata for content from other social software applications...
, and FastNeuron.
Qitera combines semantic infrastructure with social web technologies to leverage existing user behavior and data sources. Enterprise customers use Qitera's social search algorithms to improve existing enterprise search platforms.
See also
- Semantic WebSemantic Web
The Semantic Web is a collaborative movement led by the World Wide Web Consortium that promotes common formats for data on the World Wide Web. By encouraging the inclusion of semantic content in web pages, the Semantic Web aims at converting the current web of unstructured documents into a "web of...
- Enterprise Social Software
Enterprise social software
Enterprise social software , comprises social software as used in "enterprise" contexts. It includes social and networked modifications to corporate intranets and other classic software platforms used by large companies to organize their communication...
- Social Search
Social search
Social search or a social search engine is a type of web search that takes into account the Social Graph of the person initiating the search query...
- Enterprise Search
Enterprise search
Enterprise search is the practice of making content from multiple enterprise-type sources, such as databases and intranets, searchable to a defined audience.-Enterprise search summary:...
External links
• Qitera - Qitera web services• Qitera Blog - Qitera blog