Car Design Just Got Better

Car Design Just Got Better
Semantic Web tools are not commonplace yet, but they've reached the early adopter stage.

Not only you can find new friends, but you also can design new cars.

The semantic tools provided by the EU-funded WIDE project allow designers and engineers to collaborate over the Web even if they don't share a common technical language and come from various cultures.

This approach is very different from traditional knowledge management ones which often force all the people involved to speak the same language.

Designers and engineers who collaborate in the automobile industry have totally different backgrounds and use different terminologies.

They deal with several types of complex information related to patents, legislative requirements, engine re-design, emission standards and test cycles.

WIDE aims to improve innovative product design by applying emerging Semantic Web (SW) techniques to develop and test an effective information management and knowledge sharing system for multi-disciplinary design teams.

The WIDE system will support the effective and efficient inter-working of industrial designers and engineers by offering a natural and coherent environment.

The use of conventional information retrieval technology does not support the semantics of the application task.