The Digital Enterprise Research Institute, DERI, is an international network of independent research organisations aiming at developing Semantic Web technologies and promoting standards. The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the Semantics of information and services on the web is defined making it possible for the
DERI has several locations, the largest one being DERI Galway at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and several smaller annexes: DERI Stanford at Stanford University, California, USA and DERI Seoul at Seoul National University. The National University of Ireland Galway ( NUI Galway) ( Irish Ollscoil na hÉireann Gaillimh or OÉ Gaillimh) is a tertiary-level Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in Seoul National University ( SNU) is a national Research university in Seoul, South Korea. [1][2]
Professor Stefan Decker is the director of DERI Galway. Professor Hong-Gee Kim is the director of DERI Seoul, Prof. Michael Genesereth the director of DERI Stanford. Michael Genesereth is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University and director of that department's Logic Group located in the William Gates [3]