Seekda

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company_name = seekda OG
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company_type = Research Spin-off
foundation = 2007
location = flagicon|Austria Innsbruck, Austria
founder = Dieter Fensel [http://www.fensel.com/]
Thomas Haselwanter
Holger Lausen [http://www.holgerlausen.net/] , CTO
Alexander Wahler, CEO
Michal Zaremba [http://www.michal-zaremba.com/] , CRO
industry = Internet , Computer Software
Research and Development
products = Web Services search engine
service mediation
service bundling

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homepage = [http://seekda.com/ seekda.com]
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seekda is an Austrian spin-off company [http://www.sti-innsbruck.at/results/spin-offs Digital Enterprise Research Institute/Semantic Technology Institute about seekda ] (Retrieved 27 November 2007)] that specializes in developing and marketing Web Services oriented products, particularly a Web based search engine allowing to locate public Web Services.

seekda has been built on the results of the European Union funded DIP [http://dip.semanticweb.org/ Data, Information, and Process Integration with Semantic Web Services - Project DIP] ] , and Austrian FIT-IT (Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH) RW2 [ [http://rw2.deri.at Reasoning With Web Services] ] projects. The company is itself a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin-off#Research_spinoff research spin-off] of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI Innsbruck) at the University of Innsbruck. The corporate headquarter of seekda is located in Innsbruck, Austria.

The company developed the first global Web Service Search Engine based on focused crawling [ [http://seekda.com/download/Finding_Web_Services.pdf Finding Web Services. European Semantic Technology Conference, Vienna, Austria, June 2007] ] , allowing access to publicly available Web Services. seekda constantly crawls the Web for new Web Services and currently indexes and daily monitors over 27K public Web Services from more than 7K providers [http://www.cast-tyrol.com/teams/seekda.html seekda info at CAST website] (Retrieved 27 November 2007)] .

Research and development

The company is supported by local Austrian agencies (pre-seed funding):
*CAST [http://www.cast-tyrol.com/cast CAST (Center for Academic spin-offs Tyrol)] (Retrieved 27 November 2007)] - Center for Academic spin-offs Tyrol
*AWS [http://www.awsg.at AWS (Austria Wirtschaftsservice) 24 August 2008] ] - Austria Wirtschaftsservice

The company is involved in two research projects in the European Seventh Framework Program:
* SOA4ALL [ [http://www.soa4all.org Website of SOA4ALL project] ]
* Service Finder [ [http://www.service-finder.eu Website of Service Finder project] ]

The company is involved in one research Austrian FIT-IT funded project:
* Service Detector

Recent awards

* The Winner of the Business Idea Contest at European Semantic Technology Conference (still using the initial Aleph name) [http://www.estc2007.com/home/details/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=31&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=93&cHash=0cd25e5cbd Business Idea Contest at European Semantic Technology Conference] (Retrieved 23 November 2007)]
* Nominee in AdventureX business plan contest [http://www.cast-tyrol.com/news/12915.html Nominee in AdventureX business plan contest] (Retrieved 23 November 2007)]

References

External links

* [http://www.seekda.com/ seekda official website]
* [http://jacek.cz/publications/2007-11-offd-smrr.pdf use of seekda search results in scientific evaluations]