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Ingenious Ingenta
If the saying “knowledge is power” is true, Ingenta is indeed an extremely powerful organization. The Oxford-based small business has over 20 million documents stored in the IngentaConnect research platform. These are viewed by over 30 million users each month.

Ingenta is able to store this huge amount of data using its revolutionary Metastore. This is supported by Jena, an open-source Java framework recently developed by HP’s Semantic Web Program. Smaller businesses such as Ingenta are beginning to use Semantic Web technologies to share mammoth amounts of information with customers and other companies. In contrast, early-adopting enterprises are using the technology to make sharing massive volumes of internal information much simpler.

For Martin Merry, Semantic Web Research Manager at HP Laboratories in Bristol, unlocking the potential of the Internet is an exciting challenge.

“Our Semantic Web research aims to bring the Web to its full business potential, for example by contributing key technology pieces such as Jena,” said Merry.

“It is gratifying to see the technologies we develop being put to effective commercial use, and we were impressed by Ingenta’s achievements in utilizing Jena."

Merry sees a fantastic range of business benefits stemming from the Semantic Web. For example, he says many businesses today have trouble exchanging important supply chain information because it is formatted in different codes. This causes delays when ordering goods that disadvantage both parties. The Semantic Web can solve this issue because it easily integrates information from many sources. It converts data to a Resource Description Framework (RDF) format to enable interoperability between applications that exchange machine-understandable information on the Web. This gives businesses access to new information streams that previously they did not have the capability to read.

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