⏳ 🛎 Hurry up, for time is running short! Only two weeks left to apply for the OWS.EU #OpenCalls, which close on 4 April!
🗣 The OWS.EU Open Calls 2 and 3 address innovators and/or researchers as well as data/computing centres.

Successful applicants are granted fundings of up to 150,000 Euros for a period of 12 months time.

Have a look at the details & requirements:
📣 Call2:https://openwebsearch.eu/community/3rdparty-calls/call2/
📣 Call 3: https://openwebsearch.eu/community/3rdparty-calls/call3/

⏳ Deadline: 4 April, 17:00 CET

#OpenWebSearch

📌 Pre-Announcement: OWS.EU to launch 2 Third-Party #OpenCalls in February

After the successful onboarding of 6 Third-Party Partners last November, OWS.EU will call for proposals again:
📣Calls #2 & #3 invite researchers, innovators + data centres to submit their applications to participate in the #OpenWebSearch mission & receive project fundings.
https://openwebsearch.eu/pre-announcement-third-party-calls

Stay up to date on OWS.EU developments via our monthly community update calls:
https://openwebsearch.eu/community/owseu-community-updates

#ThirdPartyCall

@maik_froebe enjoy it!

🏁 Common Goals with #CommonCrawl!
We are listed as one of the official partners of Common Crawl:
https://commoncrawl.org/collaborators

“Common Crawl is not only a major resource for web-innovations, but also an inspiring partner. We are particularly looking forward to co-operate on license-aware crawling and to integrate their crawls into our open web index,“ says Michael Granitzer, ows.eu’s principal investigator.

Common Crawl Foundation is an NGO that crawls the web & provides its archives & datasets.

#SaveTheDate + get your papers + software ready! #wows24 – 1st International Workshop on #OpenWebSearch
https://opensearchfoundation.org/wows2024

Phd students, early-stage (Master’s/Bachelor’s) students
#ComputerScience #InformationScience #InformationRetrieval #NLP

Organisers
Sheikh Mastura Farzana, @DLR @maik_froebe Fröbe, Uni Jena
@gijs, @Radboud_uni
@grani, Uni Passau
@djoerd@idf.social @djoerd@social.edu.nl @djoerd@mastodon.social, Radboud Uni
@potthast, @unileipzig Saber Zerhoudi, Uni Passau

@openwebsearcheu
@ecir2024 @EC_NGI @SIGIRlist

@digitalpebble @openwebsearcheu Thanks for the blog post and you great work on StormCrawler!

Meet the #StormCrawler users is back on our blog! We are delighted to share this Q&A with members of the OpenWebSearch.eu team. Come and read about their project and how they use both #StormCrawler and #URLFrontier to help deliver a truly open, transparent and legally compliant alternative to the big search engines.

#opensource #openwebsearch #opendata #innovation

https://digitalpebble.blogspot.com/2023/11/meet-stormcrawler-users-q-with-open-web.html

@openwebsearcheu

Let´s get legal once more!
👋 Meet OWS.EU Third-Party Partner LISA

📍The project´s objective is to help deliver tangible guidelines for OWS.EU from a legal, social & security viewpoint. The project tackles questions such as ownership of digital content, sharing the index + governance structures.

📍Prof. Dr. Matthias Wendland, LL.M. (Harvard) is Professor of Information Technology Law at the University of Oldenburg + Head of the Digital Law Hub at the University of Graz.

https://openwebsearch.eu/partners/owseu-project-lisa/

Let‘s get legal - pt 2
👋 Meet OWS.EU Third-Party Partner LOREN

LOREN will provide insights into the legal implications of crawling & data storage + sharing. There will be recommendations for building & operating an #OpenWebIndex that complies with the European laws & regulations.

Paul C. Johannes is an experienced attorney at law with a focus on IT law.

Dr. Maxi Nebel is a legal practicioner & managing partner at DRBG + author of numerous publications.

https://openwebsearch.eu/partners/owseu-project-loren/
@osf @EC_NGI

Let‘s get legal!
👋 Meet OWS.EU Third-Party Partner ALMASTIC

Led on by Prof. Dr. Kai Erenli LL.M, the project aims to legally secure the #OpenWebIndex by subjecting its technical aspects – collection, storage, distribution (and use by end-users) – to legal evaluation.

📍 Prof. Dr. Kai Erenli is Study Director of the Bachelor Programs „Interactive Media & Games Business“ at the University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna.

https://openwebsearch.eu/partners/owseu-project-almastic/
#OpenWebSearch
@osf @EC_NGI

🚢 6 Third Parties successfully onboarded! 🥳

In October we welcomed 6 Third Parties with distinct Legal, Technical & Economical expertise to the project.
🔎 We will soon look into all parties one by one.

Meanwhile read about the Call's objective + eligibility criteria.
⬇️ https://openwebsearch.eu/third-parties-onboading/

#OpenWebSearch @EC_NGI

Assessing the „Market Potential“ of an #OpenWebIndex
👋 Meet OWS.EU Third-party partner Mücke Roth & Company

📍The Mücke Roth & Company team surrounding Daniel Nowakowski brings their management consulting expertise into OWS.EU to evaluate economic & non-economic aspects, including societal, cultural and environmental dimensions.

📍Mücke Roth & Company is a management consultancy in the heart of Munich.
➡️ More: https://lnkd.in/dj_9wEsZ

#OpenWebSearch #OpenWebSearchCommunity @osf

👋Meet OWS.EU Third-Party Partner #LAW4OSAI

📍Enabling license-aware crawling of web content by automatically identifying and retrieving content licenses. We welcome Daniel Braun, Bernhard Waltl & Balthasar Cevc onboard.

⬇️ Read more: https://openwebsearch.eu/partners/owseu-project-law4osai/

#OpenWebSearch #OpenWebSearchCommunity

👋 Meet OWS.EU Third-Party Partner Open Console
„An alternative to Google’s Search Console is a module in the Open Console web-interface. You prove your identity + site ownership and all Search Engines can get the same configuration you entered.”
📍 Regulating copyrights, licenses, & abuse management needs consent between data collectors & providers. 
➡ Participants in Open Console improve the quality of inputs.
📍 By Mark Overmeer + Thao Phuong Nguyen. 
https://openwebsearch.eu/partners/owseu-project-open-console/
#OpenWebSearch

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to join a panel on the politics of open infrastructures at the STS Austria Conference 2023. I presented the @openwebsearcheu project and its approach to create an ethical and alternative web search infrastructure.

The Politics of Open Infrastructures
http://www.sts-austria.org/2023/10/13/the-politics-of-open-infrastructures/

STS Austria Conference 2023
http://www.sts-austria.org/2023/10/13/sts-austria-conference-2023-digging-where-we-stand-activism-community-and-the-politics-of-sts/

#STS research

Yay! @duckdb is on :mastodon:!

@openwebsearcheu And the second day of an owsome Hackathon starts.

Kicking off the #OpenWebSearch Hackathon at #IRIXYS on web spam analysis and conversational search engines. Great organisation by the @openwebsearcheu Team. Looking forward to the solutions of the participants!

@openwebsearcheu great team, great meeting and a wonderful host.