The SWING project
Sven and me are working in an European-funded project called SWING. The acronym stands for Semantic Web services Interoperability for Geospatial decision making, which requires a good bit of imagination. Actually, the acronym derives from the song It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) by Duke Ellington, which makes more sense in my opinion. The major downside of the term SWING is its abundance. First of all, we have a form of jazz music called Swing. This alone shouldn’t be a problem (and makes it actually more interesting), swing in combination with the term project should be sufficient to locate its website. But there’s this small, unimportant other swing project out there, introduced by a small company which brought us also the programming language named after an island famous for its coffee. Having Swing, the GUI toolkit for Java, the dance, and lots of other projects/institutions with the SWING acronym makes it nearly impossible to achieve a fair ranking in search machines. But we are computer scientists and know about the PageRanking algorithm. So, for finishing my explanations about the name SWING, I conclude with the only reason for writing this little text: a link to the project website.
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