Prof. Arno Scharl of the MODUL University Vienna has send me an interesting Information about a project called Knowledge Planet. Unfortunately I had only litte time to look at this project, but it deals with with Ontologies and Knowledge Bases. Ontologies and Knowlegde Bases are populare buzzwords many people in the GI industy uses for neary everything, but in my opinion less people understand how this could applied properly to build up applications. I think this is one of the few implementations dealing with ontologies.
Excerpt of the mail:
At this year’s JavaOne conference in San Francisco, NASA developers showed that virtual globes are not only suited to explore geographic maps, but can also serve as rendering engines for other types of imagery.
The first public Knowledge Planet prototype, a java applet developed by a European team of researchers is now available (www.ecoresearch.net/climate). It visualizes large document collections using a landscape metaphor and was demonstrated by Tom Gaskins who leads the NASA World Wind engineering team at the JavaOne conference.
The peaks of the virtual landscape indicate abundant coverage on a particular topic, whereas valleys and oceans represent sparsely populated parts of the information space. The applet draws upon the extensive news archive of the Media Watch on Climate Change, which provides a continuously updated account of media coverage on climate change and related issues.
Further information about the Knowledge Planet, a screenshot and the underlying research project as well as the official press releases can be found at www.modul.ac.at/nmt/javaone .
On this way I want to thank Mr. Scharl for this information, and I’d like to share following links:
Media Watch — www.ecoresearch.net/climate
Knowledge Planet — www.ecoresearch.net/climate/knowledge-planet
Press Material — www.modul.ac.at/nmt/javaone
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