Render Project introduction and overview
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This document provides an overview of the RENDER project, which aims to develop techniques and software that leverage information diversity on the web. The 3-year project involves 7 partners from 5 countries with a budget of over 4 million euros. It will create open-source tools to support diversity-aware information management on platforms like Wikipedia and blogs. The goals are to address challenges around accessing and making sense of online information, better reflecting diverse viewpoints, and enabling true cross-community collaboration.
![Information management on the Web
“We’ve gained so much in the digital age. We get more entertainment
choices, and finding what we’re looking for is certainly fast. Best of all,
much of it is free. But we’ve lost something as well: the fortunate
discovery of something we never knew we wanted to find. In other
words the digital age is stamping our serendipity. [ ] Ah, the techies say,
no worries. We have Facebook and Twitter, spewing a stream of
suggestions about what to read, hear, see and do. We come to depend on
it to lead us to the funny article on TheOnion.com or the roving food cart
serving goat curry. It’s useful. [ ] and there is just too much information.
We can have thousands of people sending us suggestions each day –
some useful, some not. We have to read them, sort them and act upon
them.[ ] Everything we need to know comes filtered and vetted. We are
discovering what everyone else is learning, and usually from people we
have selected because they share our tastes”
(NY Times, August, 2 2009)](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/rendergeneralpresentation-110131131554-phpapp02/85/Render-Project-introduction-and-overview-4-320.jpg)
Render Project introduction and overview
- 1. RENDER Project introduction and overview
- 2. Outline o The idea o The people o The project o The work
- 3. The idea
- 4. Information management on the Web “We’ve gained so much in the digital age. We get more entertainment choices, and finding what we’re looking for is certainly fast. Best of all, much of it is free. But we’ve lost something as well: the fortunate discovery of something we never knew we wanted to find. In other words the digital age is stamping our serendipity. [ ] Ah, the techies say, no worries. We have Facebook and Twitter, spewing a stream of suggestions about what to read, hear, see and do. We come to depend on it to lead us to the funny article on TheOnion.com or the roving food cart serving goat curry. It’s useful. [ ] and there is just too much information. We can have thousands of people sending us suggestions each day – some useful, some not. We have to read them, sort them and act upon them.[ ] Everything we need to know comes filtered and vetted. We are discovering what everyone else is learning, and usually from people we have selected because they share our tastes” (NY Times, August, 2 2009)
- 5. Collaboration on the Web
- 6. Why RENDER? o The challenges of today’s Web • purposefully access, process and manage information, whilst remaining true to its design principles, and leveraging diversity o Comprehensive solutions needed • infrastructure to store and access information • methods and techniques to make sense out of it • paradigms underlying the processes of Web- based information provision and consumption o Information management methods and techniques do not reflect the plurality of opinions and viewpoints expressed on the Web. • filtering, aggregation and summarization, ranking, presentation o This affects the quality of the information management services offered, and hampers true collaboration
- 7. What will RENDER do about it? o Develop methods, techniques, software and data sets that will leverage diversity as a crucial source of innovation and creativity. • scale to very large amounts of data and hundreds of thousands of users, but also to a plurality of points of views and opinions • realistic data sets • open source extensions to popular communication and collaboration platforms (MediaWiki, WordPress) o RENDER’s results will be showcased • diversity-aware Wikipedia • diversity-minded access to journalistic content • novel customer management support in global enterprises. RENDER will help realize a world where information is acquired and shared in a fundamentally different manner than the consensual approach promoted by movements such as Web 2.0, and where communication and collaboration across the borders of social, cultural or professional communities are truly enabled via advanced Web technology, supporting one of the credos of European society: “United in diversity”.
- 9. The people
- 10. Map
- 11. Contributions to the project
- 12. The project
- 13. Some figures o STREP with a duration of 3 years o 7 partners from 5 countries o With a budget of 4.193.565 ! o Coordinated by KIT o 384 person months ~ 32 person years o 7 work packages o 54 deliverables
- 14. Dissemination
- 15. The work
- 16. The work
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- 18. More information Official Project Website http://www.render-project.eu Project Coordinator Dr. Elena Simperl Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Germany elena.simperl @kit.edu