Defence Semantic Web Intelligence System

The Australian Department of Defence has issued a Request for Tender for the intriguing sounding "Project Riddler", which appears to be a semantic web based strategic intelligence system.

The Customer has a requirement for a Commercial Off The Shelf software product which supports the following key capabilities:

• Storing and editing knowledge in a centralised ontology based repository;
• Ability to support a minimum of 100 concurrent users;
• Changes to knowledge and recently imported knowledge should be available for access by other users within a short timeframe;
• Management of ontology must be flexible and easy to change by sepcified users;
• Searching, filtering and visualising the knowledge in multiple different ways;
• Direct access to the stored knowledge via a documented API; and
• Fine grained security access controls to the knowledge. ...

From: "Project Riddler", DISG 2010/10, Request for Tender, Department of Defence, Intelligence, Security and International Policy, 5 May 2010