Semantic Technology Institute (STI) International is an association of global experts in semantics and services, located in

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

. It has members mostly from Europe, but also from

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

, and

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

. STI International is governed by an executive board, and has a board of representatives of all members, plus several ''STI Fellows'': Michael Brodie,

Guus Schreiber Guus is a common Dutch given name. It is a diminutive of the name Augustus. The female variant of this name is "Guusje". People named Guus include: * Guus Albregts (1900–1980), Dutch economist and politician * Guus Berkhout (born 1940), Dutch ...

, Jim Hendler, Mark Greaves, and

Rudi Studer Rudi Studer (born 1951 in Stuttgart) is a German computer scientist and professor emeritus at KIT, Germany. He served as head of the knowledge management research group at the Institute AIFB and one of the directors of the Karlsruhe Service Res ...

. STI International is the organizer of several annual international conferences in semantic technologies and the future of the internet: the Extended (previously called European) Semantic Web Conference
ESWC
along with the ESWC Summer School on semantic technologies, and the Future Internet Symposium
FIS
. The institute also initiates and organizes smaller events and symposia in Austria and worldwide. The association owns a spin-off company, STI International Consulting und Research GmbH, which pursues the interests of the members in research (under the nam
STI Research
and in education/training (under the nam
Semsphere
.

Members

Voting partners:Partners , STI International
(November 2011) *

Free University of Amsterdam The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (abbreviated as ''VU Amsterdam'' or simply ''VU'' when in context) is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, being founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research ...

* Free University of Bozen-Bolzano * Freie Universität Berlin *

Forschungszentrum Informatik The FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik ''(Research Center for Information Technology)'', is a non-profit research institute for applied computer science in Karlsruhe, Germany. FZI was established in 1985. FZI has very close collaborations with Karls ...

German National Library of Economics The National Library of Economics (ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics) is the world's largest research infrastructure for economic literature, online as well as offline. The ZBW is a member of the Leibniz Association and has been ...

Jozef Stefan Institute Jozef or Józef is a Dutch, Breton, Polish and Slovak version of masculine given name Joseph. A selection of people with that name follows. For a comprehensive list see and .. * Józef Beck (1894–1944), Polish foreign minister in the 1930s * J ...

Know Center
*

MIMOS Berhad MIMOS Berhad (or MIMOS) is Malaysia's national applied research and development centre under the Ministry of Science, Technology And Innovation (MOSTI). The company was founded as the Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems in 1985, c ...

Ontotext Ontotext is a software company with offices in Europe and USA. It is the semantic technology branch of Sirma Group. Its main domain of activity is the development of software based on the Semantic Web languages and standards, in particular RDF, ...

Saltlux Inc.
* The Open University * TXT e-solutions *

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 w ...

, AIFB *

University of Aberdeen The University of Aberdeen ( sco, University o' 'Aiberdeen; abbreviated as ''Aberd.'' in List of post-nominal letters (United Kingdom), post-nominals; gd, Oilthigh Obar Dheathain) is a public university, public research university in Aberdeen, Sc ...

University of Innsbruck The University of Innsbruck (german: Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck; la, Universitas Leopoldino Franciscea) is a public research university in Innsbruck, the capital of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol, founded on October 15, 1669. ...

University of Malaga A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...

University of Sheffield , mottoeng = To discover the causes of things , established = – University of SheffieldPredecessor institutions: – Sheffield Medical School – Firth College – Sheffield Technical School – University College of Sheffield , type = Pu ...

* Vienna University of Technology *

Wonkwang University Wonkwang University is a university located in Iksan, South Korea. Founded as Youilhakrim (유일학림) in 1946, it is one of the few academies affiliated with Won Buddhism. Yuilhakrim was succeeded by Wonkwang Junior College (원광초급대학 ...

The network also has non-voting members that support its operations and have other benefits; the full list of members can be found at the institute's website.

References

External links

Homepage of STI International
{{authority control Research institutes in Austria