Information Diffusion across Interactive Online Media
FIT-IT Semantic Systems Project
http://www.idiom.at/
Recent advances in collaborative Web technology are governed by strong network effects and the harnessing of collective intelligence through customer-self service and algorithmic data management. As a result, information spreads rapidly across Web sites, blogs, Wiki applications, and direct communication channels between members of online communities who utilize these services. The IDIOM (Information Diffusion across Interactive Online Media) project will support and investigate electronic interactivity by means of a generic, service-oriented architecture. This architecture will include ontology-based tools to build and maintain contextualized information spaces, a framework for analyzing content diffusion and interaction patterns within these spaces, and interface technology that enables users switch between semantic and geospatial topologies. IDIOM introduces Knowledge Planets as a radically new interface metaphor that leverages the new generation of geo-browsing platforms such as NASA World Wind and Google Earth as a front-end for its portfolio of semantic services.
Linguists define "Idiom" as an expression whose meaning is different from the literal meanings of its component words. Similarly, the study of information diffusion promises insights that cannot be inferred from individual network elements. Despite growing research interest, the “Web 2.0” is still dominated by prototypes and mash-ups. At the same time, media monitoring and corporate knowledge management projects lack analytical frameworks, focus on one particular medium, or neglect the dual role of users as consumers and producers of information. IDIOM will address these gaps to reveal fundamental mechanisms of information diffusion across media with distinct interactive characteristics, providing a set of generic services to analyze the production and consumption of electronic content simultaneously.
Use Cases
Contextualized Access of Tourism-Related Electronic Resources (CATER) investigates context-aware information retrieval in the tourism domain. It aims to develop a search module for IDIOM’s contextualized information spaces with advanced disambiguation and query refinement, as well as just-in-time information retrieval agents to identify related material automatically. The results will be displayed via a tightly coupled interface - e.g. query term expansion to locate documents and people related Austrian destinations, and project them onto the Google Earth interface.
Climate Change Collaboratory (CCC) focuses on collaboration between the scientific community, the commercial world, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) – stakeholders often divided by differing worldviews, goals, and agendas. Anthropogenic climate change is a particularly complex and controversial issue, and a target of international treaties and collaborations such as the Kyoto Protocol. To overcome divides between scientific, commercial and NGO communities in the environmental domain, the collaboratory will provide matchmaking services for ad-hoc team composition, and support the day-to-day activities of online communities. CCC investigates how to create and sustain a critical mass of participants and content to ensure rich, self-sustaining community interaction.
Consortium
Scientific Partners
- Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (WU): Research Institute for Computational Methods (CM); Institute for Tourism and Leisure Studies (TLS)
- Graz University of Technology (TUG): Knowledge Management Institute (KMI)
Industry Partners
- Gentics Software, Prisma Solutions, Austria.info Systems
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Sponsor: FIT-IT Semantic Systems |
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