LarKC - The Webmachine

A film by Peter Drössler



Austria // 2010 // 7 min // Colour // Commissioned Film

Synopsis

The aim of the EU FP 7 Large-Scale Integrating Project LarKC is to develop the Large Knowledge Collider (LarKC, for short, pronounced “lark”), a platform for massive distributed incomplete reasoning that will remove the scalability barriers of currently existing reasoning systems for the Semantic Web.

LarKC is an open source search engine and it can be downloaded by anyone. LarKC is activly searching early adopters, offering an ideal environment, in which different scientists and developers can come together to work on. The video produced for STI2 addresses potential early adopters, giving them a brief overview over the project. It had its first screening in Brussels in October 2010.

Written & Directed by

Peter Drössler

Camera

Gabriella Reisinger

Animation

Richard Techt, Shotshotshot

Editing

Ernst Miesgang

Actress, voice

Julie McCarthy-Klitsch

Sound Design & Mixing

Georg Tomandl, Sunshine Mastering

Content Advisors

Reto Krummenacher, Senior Researcher, STI / Graham Hench, Scientific Coordinator, STI

Executive Producer

Alfie Lang-Král

Producers

Gabriele Kranzlbinder, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu

Production

AMOUR FOU Vienna