RENDER - Reflecting Knowledge Diversity

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RENDER - Reflecting Knowledge Diversity is a research project with the aim of making information from the Internet easier to understand by giving users the option of filtering content according to personal settings, preferences or profiles. RENDER is a European research project with partners from six countries under the direction and coordination of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology .

description

In the RENDER project, methods and data models were to be developed “to understand different perspectives of a topic and to make them describable and evaluable.” It was supposed to make the wealth of information of the Internet easier for users to grasp and to give them the opportunity to use the many available To make better use of “information, backgrounds, different perspectives and points of view” on each topic by developing data models “that 'pre-filter' knowledge according to personal attitudes, preferences or profiles”. As a result, “open source extensions of known communicative and collaborative services such as B. MediaWiki and WordPress ”arise.

In order to better understand the behavior of internet users when searching for information, data were collected in three case studies. Wikimedia Deutschland, Google Ireland Ltd. were responsible for data collection in these case studies. and Telefonica I + D, which collected and evaluated user data in the projects they carried out.

Project

The project started in October 2010 and ran for 36 months until September 2013. The total budget of the project was around 4.4 million euros. Around 2.9 million euros of this came from the 7th Research Framework Program of the European Commission (FP7) within the “Information and Communication Technologies” (ICT) program. The difference was borne by the partners' own resources.

partner

Funding shares in RENDER

• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology , Germany
• Institute Jozef Stefan, Slovenia
• Ontotext, Bulgaria
• Telefónica , Spain
• Google Ireland Ltd., Ireland
• STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck , Austria
• Wikimedia Germany , Germany

Web links

• Official website
• Annual report 2010 (PDF; 387 kB) of the RENDER project
• RENDER: Reflecting Knowledge Diversity . European Commission project website.
• Diversity toolkit . Presentation for the kick-off meeting.
• EU project RENDER records the diversity of information on the World Wide Web . Press release of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), October 3, 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Angelika Adam: Wikipedia as a database: The RENDER project . Wikimedia Deutschland e. V.