Organisational Structure#
Workpackages#

Fig. 1 Workpackage Structure#
WP 8: Project Management and Coordination Office: Handling overarching project management, quality assurance, coordination, and innovation management.
WP 7: Dissemination & Exploitation: Centered on communication, training, and financial matters.
WP 6: Open Web Search Ecosystem: Focusing on ethics, societal aspects, ecosystem governance, and legal concerns.
WP 5: Federated Data Infrastructure: Covers storage, computing, registry, data management, validation, and more.
WP 4: Search Applications and User Experience: Concentrates on user-centric search applications, including mobile search, recommendation systems, and privacy.
WP 3: Search Architectures and Services: Emphasizes search engines, federated search hubs, and conversational search systems.
WP 2: Index Generation & Content Analysis: Encompasses processes like content analysis, geocoding, knowledge representation, and more.
WP1: Resource Efficient Collaborative Crawling: Deals with crawler coordination, website indexing, console operations, and algorithmic tasks.
Third Party Contributions: The framework also integrates third-party inputs in areas like applications, services, index generation, and data gathering.
Roadmap#
Project Setup (M1 to M3-4): Initial stages involve setting up management tools, website, and defining a DEC strategy.
Operational Prerequisites (M6): These focus on data requirements, finalizing submission systems, and ensuring the grant submission system is ready.
Project Milestones:
First components by M12 include a Crawler coordination, a Vertical Search Engine Definition, and Search Model Concepts.
Infrastructure developments are set for M12 and M19, with a pilot data infrastructure launch by M12.
Several deliverables across M18 to M36 focus on pipelines, infrastructure, ecosystem and exploitation, ending with a final search application evaluation report by M36.
Review Meetings: A significant review meeting is planned for M18.
Completion Indicators: The roadmap is punctuated with completion indicators like Y1 Done, Y2 Done Prototypes, and finally, ‘DONE’ by M36.
Fig. 2 Milestones and Deliverables#