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Knowledge Management in Web 2.0

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Knowledge Management in Web 2.0

Knowledge Management in Web 2.0 (Seminar)

Organization

Any issues regarding the organization of the seminar should be discussed with Johannes Hoffart. I will be available for you every thursday from 15:00-15:30 for your questions in my office, B117. I would be thankful if you send an eMail in advance if you are planning to come, so that I know if we need additional time.

 

Questions and discussions can also be posted to our  forum.

Resources

The presentations of our introductory course:

Presentation and Report

An example of structure and content of your report is given in ZIP this LaTeX template (the appropriate fonts for this template can be found at the  page for the LaTeX TUD-Design). You are free to adjust this template to your specific topic, and to add additonal information where you think appropriate. We would appreciate if the report and presentation slides were written in English, but the presentation itself should be held in German. A powerpoint template for the talk is also available.

After your presentation, please send us your slides!

A digitial version of the report is required, alongside a printout of the final version.

Timetable

  • May 5, 2009: 15:20-17:00 the first session will be held in B002.
  • Every following session except on May 12 will also be held in B002. The session on May 12 will be held in E102.
  • Groups have received a mail containing group members on April 15, so that they can collaborate on their joint presentation. The mail has been sent to your RBG account, so please check there!
  • The report has to be written at the end of the semester, the deadline for handing in your printed report ist August 15, 2009. Please include a digital version for reprints. Every student has to write a report alone, no group reports are accepted.

Sessions

Lecturers

  • Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych
  • Torsten Zesch
  • Johannes Hoffart
  • Dr. Delphine Bernhard

Contents

A variety of collaborative forms of knowledge has emerged in the Web 2.0. Wikis are a good example, as they are used in various areas, for example, as encyclopedias (Wikipedia, Knol, Citizendium), as dictionaries (Wiktionary), as collections of quotations (Wikiquote) or of animal and plant species (Wikispecies). Other examples are question / answer portals such as Yahoo! Answers and WikiAnswers, social bookmarking services such as del.ic.ious, user rating portals such as Rate it all!, online social networks like Facebook or studiVZ, pictures portals like Flickr, video portals such as YouTube and many more. The seminar, however, also focuses on collections of facts such as Freebase or DBpedia, which derive from collaborative knowledge management and already belong to the Web 3.0.

 

The properties of the systems will be analysed and evaluated in terms of their potential uses in the students' major field of interest (such as computer science, social sciences, etc). Other Web 2.0 knowledge management systems may be studied.

 

A unique feature of this seminar is that it is interdisciplinary. Mixed student teams will be set up to work on a theme, e.g. computer science + psychology + economics. In addition, the students will acquire key skills, such as basics of scientific work and presentation skills in interdisciplinary contexts.

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