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Vienna, 20 June 2008

I D I O M • F I T ‐ I T S e m a n t i c S y s t e m s

FIT-IT Semantic Systems Information Diffusion across

Interactive Online Media www.idiom.at

IDIOM is a two‐year research project funded by FIT‐IT Semantic Systems, a program of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology in cooperation with the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG). IDIOM develops visual interfaces to create, access and analyze electronic content,

and reveals fundamental mechanisms of information diffusion across media with distinct interactive characteristics.

Activity Report

Refereed Publications 2 Use Cases 3 Presentations 5 Awards 6 News Media Coverage 7

IDIOM FIT‐IT Semantic Systems Project Information Diffusion across Interactive Online Media

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Refereed Publications

Academic Journals

1. Scharl, A. and Weichselbraun, A. (2008): “An Automated Approach to Investigating theOnline Media Coverage of US Presidential Elections”, Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 5(1): Forthcoming.

2. Dickinger, A. and Zins, A. (2008): “Usage of Location Based River Cruise Information Sys‐tems – Industry Views and User Acceptance”, Journal of Hospitality and Leisure Market‐ing. Forthcoming.

3. Dickinger, A., Zorn, S. (2008): Compensation Models for Interactive Advertising, Journal of Universal Computer Science, 14 (4), 557‐565.

4. Scharl, A., Dickinger, A. and Weichselbraun, A. (2008): “Analyzing News Media Coverageto Acquire and Structure Tourism Knowledge”, Information Technology and Tourism,10(1): 3‐17.

5. Scharl, A., Weichselbraun, A. and Liu, W. (2007). “Tracking and Modeling Information Diffusion across Interactive Online Media”, International Journal of Metadata, Semanticsand Ontologies, 2(2): 136‐145.

6. Scharl, A. (2006). "Tightly Coupled Geospatial Interfaces for Collaborative Systems andJust‐in‐Time Information Retrieval Agents", Research in Computing Science, Special Issueon Semantics in Geoinformatics Applications. (25): 3‐18.

Conference Proceedings

1. Scharl, A., Stern, H. and Weichselbraun, A. (2008). "Annotating and Visualizing Location Data in Geospatial Web Applications", 17th International World Wide Web Conference(WWW‐2008), 1st International Workshop on Location and the Web. Beijing, China: As‐sociation for Computing Machinery (ACM). 65‐68.

2. Scharl, A., Stern, H. and Weichselbraun, A. (2008). "A Geospatial Web Application for Communicating Climate Change", 11th International Conference on Geographic Informa‐tion Science (AGILE‐2008), GeoVisualization of Dynamics, Movement and Change Work‐shop. Girona, Spain: AGILE Council.

3. Sabol, V. and Scharl, A. (2008): “Visualizing Temporal‐Semantic Relations in Dynamic Information Landscapes”, Semantic Web Meets Geospatial Applications Workshop, 11th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (AGILE‐2008). Girona, Spain: AGILE Council.

4. Dickinger, A. and Zorn, S. (2007). "Compensation Models for Interactive Advertising", 5thInternational Conference on Knowledge Management (I‐KNOW 2007). Graz, Austria: Know‐Center. 101‐108.

5. Scharl, A., Weichselbraun, A., Hubmann‐Haidvogel, A., Stern, H., Wohlgenannt, G. and Zibold, D. (2007). "MediaWatch on Climate Change: Building and Visualizing Contextua‐lized Information Spaces", 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC‐2007). Bu‐san, Korea.

6. Scharl, A. (2007). "Knowledge Sharing and Community Building in Contextualized Infor‐mation Spaces", 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE‐2007). San Francisco, USA: International Society for Digital Earth.

7. Scharl, A. (2007). "The Climate Change Collaboratory – A Community Portal Based on Geospatial Web Technology", International Symposium on Environmental Software Sys‐tems (ISESS‐2007). Prague, Czech Republic.

8. Scharl, A. (2006). "Geospatial Publishing – Creating and Managing Geo‐Tagged Knowledge Repositories", 1st International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT‐2006). Setúbal, Portugal: Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Controland Communication (INSTICC). 226‐231.


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Books

1. Scharl, A. and Tochtermann, K., Eds. (2007). The Geospatial Web – How Geo‐Browsers, Social Software and the Web 2.0 are Shaping the Network Society. London: Springer.http://www.geospatialweb.com/.

Book Chapters

1. Dickinger, A., Drimmel, C. and Scharl, A. (2008). "GeoWeb‐Anwendungen in Tourismus und Freizeit", Web 2.0 in der Unternehmenspraxis. Eds. A. Back et al. Munich: Olden‐bourg. Forthcoming.

2. Dickinger, A., Scharl, A., Stern, H., Weichselbraun, A., und Wöber, K. (2008): “Acquisitionand Relevance of Geotagged Information in Tourism”, Information and CommunicationTechnologies in Tourism 2008. Eds. P. O’Connor et al. Vienna: Springer. 545‐555.

3. Dickinger, A., Mazanec, J. (2008): “Consumers’ Preferred Criteria for Hotel Online Book‐ing”, Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2008. Eds. P. O’Connor etal. Vienna: Springer. 244‐254.

4. Scharl, A. (2007). “Towards the Geospatial Web: Media Platforms for Managing Geo‐tagged Knowledge Repositories”, The Geospatial Web – How Geo‐Browsers, Social Soft‐ware and the Web 2.0 are Shaping the Network Society. Eds. A. Scharl and K. Tochter‐mann. London: Springer. 3‐14.

Use Cases

06/07 ‐ dato

Media Watch on Climate Change: To increase awareness and the availability of environmental information, the IDIOM Media Watch on Climate Change provides a comprehensive and continuously updated account of media coverage on cli‐mate change and related issues. The portal aggregates, filters and visualizes envi‐ronmental content from 150 Anglo‐American news media sites. The interface provides various means to interactively access the knowledge base and shows that virtual globes are not only suited to explore geographic features, but can al‐so render other types of imagery such as three‐dimensional Knowledge Planets. http://www.ecoresearch.net/climate


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10/07 ‐ dato

CATER Tourism Portal: This prototype investigates context‐aware information re‐trieval in the tourism domain. It provides a search module for IDIOM’s contextua‐lized information spaces with just‐in‐time information retrieval agents to identify related material automatically (both in terms of semantic similarity as well as geographic proximity). The results are displayed via a tightly coupled interface, which allows locating documents and individuals related to Austrian destinations.

http://www.idiom.at/austria

12/07 ‐ dato

US Election 2008 Web Monitor: How do 150 international media, the Fortune 1000, 50 environmental organizations and 1000 political blogs tailor electronic content to fit their political agenda? To answer this question, the US Election 2008 Web Monitor gathers more than 800,000 documents in weekly intervals. An automated process identifies attention by counting candidate references and measures sentiment towards the candidate by looking for positive and negative expressions that co‐occur with these references. Keyword lists reflect the most important topics associated with the candidate.

http://www.ecoresearch.net/election2008

Web Site Visitors and Press Releases from December 2007 to March 2008


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Presentations

Presenter Title Event City Country Date

Arno Scharl Tightly Coupled Geospatial Interfaces for Collaborative Systems and Just‐in‐Time Information Retrieval Agents

2nd International Conference on Geoin‐formatics Applications

Mexico City

Mexico 22 Nov 2006

Astrid Dickinger

Location Based Services in Tourism Brennpunkt e‐Tourism Salzburg Austria 24 Nov 2006

Arno Scharl Geospatial Interfaces for Collabora‐tive Systems

Curtin University of Technology

Perth Australia 22 Feb 2007

Arno Scharl Presentation of IDIOM at "ICT Chal‐lenge 6: Mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency"

European Commission ICT Information Day

Prague Czech

Republic 21 May 2007

Arno Scharl The Climate Change Collaboratory – A Community Portal Based on Geos‐patial Web Technology

International Sympo‐sium on Environmen‐tal Software Systems

Prague Czech

Republic 22 May 2007

Arno Scharl IDIOM Media Watch on Climate Change

5th International Symposium on Digital Earth

San Francisco

USA 7 Jun 2007

Arno Scharl Knowledge Sharing and Community Building in Contextualized Informa‐tion Spaces

5th International Symposium on Digital Earth

San Francisco

USA 7 Jun 2007

Astrid Dickinger

IDIOM Research Project and Industry Relevance

Gentics Launch Vienna Austria 28 Jun 2007

Arno Scharl

IDIOM Media Watch on Climate Change ‐ Geospatial Web Technology for Accessing Environmental Online Resources

7th International Conference on Know‐ledge Management

Graz Austria 5 Sep 2007

Astrid Dickinger

Compensation Models for Interactive Advertising

7th International Conference on Know‐ledge Management

Graz Austria 7 Sep 2007

Arno Scharl

IDIOM Media Watch on Climate Change ‐ Geospatial Web Technology for Accessing Environmental Online Resources

Education & Outreach Colloquium, NASA Goddard Space Center

Greenbelt USA 12 Sep 2007

Clemens Költringer

Web 2.0 Trends Brennpunkt eTourism 2007

Berchtes‐gaden

Germany 12 Nov 2007

Arno Scharl Managing Geospatial Knowledge in Contextualized Information Spaces

Workshop on Geo‐spatial Knowledge Infrastructures

Cardiff United Kingdom

26 Nov 2007


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Presenter Title Event City Country Date

Astrid Dickinger

Consumers’ Preferred Criteria for Hotel Online Booking

ENTER Conference 2008

Innsbruck Austria 24 Jan 2008

Arno Scharl Acquisition and Relevance of Geo‐tagged Information in Tourism

ENTER Conference 2008

Innsbruck Austria 25 Jan 2008

Arno Scharl Analyzing Trends in Online Media Coverage

Curtin University of Technology


Arno Scharl US Election 2008 Web Monitor: Preliminary Results from a Semantic Systems Project

University of Western Australia


Arno Scharl Media Watch on Climate Change NOAA/NASA Meeting on Public Attitudes about Climate Change

Silver Spring

USA 8 Apr 2008

Walter Rafelsberger

Visualizing Twitter Conversations WebMontag #12 Vienna Austria 26 May 2008

Walter Rafelsberger

Election Monitor 2008 PolitCamp Graz Graz Austria 30 May 2008

Arno Scharl US Election 2008 Web Monitor: Community‐Unterstützung durch semantische Technologien

Jahrestreffen der Plattform Wissens‐management

Vienna Austria 30 May 2008

Walter Rafelsberger

Social Network Analysis with Rhizome Navigation

Social Network Day Vienna Austria 31 May 2008

Walter Rafelsberger

Visualizing Social Networks University of the Arts Bremen

Bremen Germany 15 June 2008

Arno Scharl Geospatial Web: Stand der For‐schung zur Integration semantischer und geographischer Technologien

Edicos Conference ‘Innovative Search Technologies’

Munich Germany 18 June 2008

Awards

• 3rd Prize among the FIT‐IT Semantics Systems Proposals 2006 (www.fit‐it.at)

• Winner of the Digital Earth 3D Visualization Grand Challenge (www.isde5.org)

• Finalist of the Semantic Web Challenge (www.iswc07.org)


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News Media Coverage*

NASA Shows Knowledge Planet at JavaOne Conference industry.slashgeo.org/

article.pl?sid=08/05/08/1251253 Slashgeo (09 May 2008)

US Election Monitor oe1.orf.at/highlights/116916.html

ORF Ö1 (27 Feb 2008)

Obama knapp vor Clinton futurezone.orf.at/it/stories/254249/

ORF Futurezone (04 Feb 2008)

US‐Wahlkampf im Internet Web‐Tool analysiert Online‐Berichterstattung; Neben Häufigkeit

wird auch emotionale Wertigkeit berücksichtigt derstandard.at/?url=/?id=3210434

Der Standard (04 Feb 2008)

Die US‐Wahl, durchs Web gesehen Der Standard (09 Jan 2008)

A New Way to Serve Up Political Data weblogs.jomc.unc.edu/talkpolitics/?p=153

UNC Talk Politics (01 Jan 2008)

US Election 2008 Web Monitor transition.turbulence.org/blog/2007/12/18/

us‐election‐2008‐web‐monitor/ Networked Performance (18 Dec 2007)

Österreich bei US‐Wahlen doch dabei www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/100596

Telepolis (15 Dec 2007)

E‐Clipping: Inhalte automatisiert nach Emotionen durchforsten www.medianet.at/content12159‐44.html MediaNet (5 Feb 2008) Forschung: Web‐Tool analysiert Online‐Berichterstattung www.computerwoche.de/produkte_technik/ software/1854753/ Computerwoche (04 Feb 2008) US‐Wahlkampf im Internet abseits herkömmlicher Umfragen derstandard.at/?url=/?id=3205651 Der Standard (31 Jan 2008) Tracking the US Election www.convergenceculture.org/weblog/ 2008/01/tracking_the_us_election.php MIT Convergence Culture Consortium (03 Jan 2008) Geotagged News Archive on the US Election 2008 industry.slashgeo.org/industry/ 07/12/18/1751232.shtml slashgeo (18 Dec 2007) Ab in die Zukunft: Informationstechnologie ‐ Österreichs Forschung gibt den Ton an Österreich (18 Oct 2007) IDIOM Media Watch on Climate Change ‐ Geospatial Web Technology for Accessing Environmental Online Resources esdepo.gsfc.nasa.gov/calendar/view.php?id=144 NASA Goddard Space Center (12 Sep 2007)

* Selected articles on the IDIOM Project between November 2006 and May 2008


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Enviromatics: Computersysteme zum Schutz der Umwelt

oe1.orf.at/programm/200707252501.html ORF Radio Ö1 (25 Jul 2007)

Zusammenhänge im Netz finden derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2953835

Der Standard (10 Jul 2007)

Ein trockenes Thema anschaulich gemacht

www.welt.de/wissenschaft/article937404/.html Welt Online (11 Jun 2007)

Österreichischer Wissensglobus prämiert: Prototyp einer Klimaschutz‐Ressource futurezone.orf.at/it/stories/198183/

futureZone (06 Jun 2007)

Umfrage zum Thema Geoplattformen www.aon.at

AON (25 Jan 2007)

Wiener und Grazer Forscher untersuchen User‐Rollen

www.kleinezeitung.at/nachrichten/chronik/284722/index.do

Kleine Zeitung (05 Dec 2006)

US Election 2008 Web Monitor transition.turbulence.org/blog/2007/12/18/

us‐election‐2008‐web‐monitor/ Networked Performance (18 Dec 2007)

Im Wissensgebirge Österreichs futurezone.orf.at/hardcore/stories/154220/

futureZone (29 Nov 2006)

Wissen Aktuell oe1.orf.at/programm ORF Radio Ö1 (13 Jul 2007) Virtueller Wissensglobus zum Klimawandel www.wienerzeitung.at Wiener Zeitung (04 Jul 2007) Auszeichnung für Grazer Forschungsprojekt über Klimawandel‐Berichte: "Digital Earch 3D Visualisation Contest" für Media Watch on Climate Change derstandard.at/?id=2907538 Der Standard (06 Jun 2007) Auszeichnung für Grazer Forschungsprojekt über Klimawandel‐Berichte www.apa.at Austria Press Agency (05 Jun 2007) Forscher untersuchen Online‐Infos www.zukunftwissen.apa.at/cms/zukunft‐wissen/fti‐und‐wissenschaft/topnews_einzel.html Austria Press Agency (05 Dec 2006) Grazer Forscher untersuchen Online‐Infos und User‐Rollen www.kleinezeitung.at/regionen/steiermark/graz/284693/index.do Kleine Zeitung (05 Dec 2006) Der Planet des Wissens derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2685912 Der Standard (05 Dec 2006)


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