Amersfoort, The Netherlands, July 20, 2006
Aduna, based in Amersfoort, The Netherlands, is a leading software company in the area of metadata-based storage and retrieval software. Aduna recently announced a new strategy, making all of its software products for Guided Exploration freely available under an open source license. Since 1997, Aduna has been developing advanced products for the creation, delivery and support of metadata-based storage and retrieval environments, based on open standards.
IT-analysts agree that the use of metadata (data about data) will grow significantly the coming years. There is a growing number of data sources within organizations and compliance legislation becomes more strict. This results in the need for better or more precise information retrieval systems. Systems that are capable of handling huge amounts of structured and unstructured data. The use of explicit and implicit metadata in search and navigation is an essential element in these new systems.
Aduna Sesame is the first open source project initiated by Aduna. Sesame is a metadata storage framework developed with the help of an active open source community at www.openrdf.org. Sesame has become one of the most popular open source metadata storage frameworks in the world.
Based on Sesame, the Aduna Metadata Server was developed. The Aduna Metadata Server scans information sources, extracts metadata and then makes this metadata available for search and navigation programs. Aduna's offerings in this field - Aduna Spectacle and Aduna Autofocus - provide a user-friendly interface to the information stored in Aduna Metadata Servers for both casual searchers and professional knowledge workers. These professional search products use state-of-the-art techniques to visualize results and help the user “zoom in” while searching.
In order to distribute these products worldwide, Aduna has adopted an open source model for all of its software products. With this strategy Aduna will help to create a market for metadata-based search software with the intention of becoming a dominant player in this market. Aduna offers professional support on all of its products through service subscription contracts..
About Aduna Aduna, situated in the Netherlands, develops software for metadata-based search and retrieval. Aduna software enables users to interact with this metadata in order to search and explore information. Visualization and facet navigation are key elements of this Guided Exploration experience. Users are able to find information faster, get more accurate results and gain insight into the structure of information collections. In general organizations spend more time actually using information and leverage valuable metadata.
Aduna software is freely available through an open source licensing model. Superior enterprise and development support services are available through support subscription offerings. As initiator of the OpenRDF community, Aduna plays a leading role in the development of Sesame, the world’s leading open source RDF-based metadata storage framework. Current users of Sesame include Boeing, the US Department of Defense and Reed Elsevier.
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