Concept Web Alliance

The mission of the Concept Web Alliance is to enable an open collaborative environment to jointly address the challenges associated with high volume scholarly and professional data production, storage, interoperability and analyses for knowledge discovery.

CWA is devoted to the Concept Web – a dynamic, interactive fabric of concepts and their relationships. The Concept Web is constructed from, inter alia, research literature, Internet databases and other web sites together with off-line resources. The aim of creating the Concept Web is to remove both redundancy and ambiguity from available knowledge in order to help deal with information overload, to semantically ‘connect’ concepts, and so to maximize the potential for knowledge discovery.

Initiated with a declaration in May, 2009, The stated aims of the CWA are:

1. The advocacy and co-ordination of co-operative efforts, including where appropriate with established entities, to develop methodology and infrastructure to deal with global life science information
2. The promotion of, and engagement in, research on concept identification, unique identifier assignment, and community annotation of concepts
3. The development and refinement of ways to capture information in Semantically Rich Triples
4. The methodology to enable universal operability and interoperability of such triples
5. The needs for storage and easy (e.g. high bandwidth) access to triple collections
6. The development of methods and technology – ‘concept web browsers’ – for visualizing, and reasoning with, large amounts of triples
7. The support of environments for ontology or concept map building based on subsets of triples.