The project builds on a research and development consortium of BME, and an academic new media research institute within that organisation as knowledge centre, and La Frutta Elettronica Ltd, a multimedia and interface development company, as technology centre.
The aim of the project is to design a favourable
technological and semantic environment for PhD students in which special
research-interest groups and sub-communities can emerge and effectively
function. The on-line portal is designed to support collaborative content
publication and filtering through its advanced rating, ontological and feedback
systems. The consortium is set out to
accomplish the following goals through a common project:
Technical goals
To develop the prototype of an
integrated on-line telecommunication infrastructure optimised to support the
communication needs of emergent virtual communities and collaborative content
filtering.
Scientific goals
To explore ontologies, thesauri and systems of classification that can be used to identify and measure similarities among users, groups and contents. To develop data-mining algorithms that effectively serve this goal. The comparative analysis of already existing methods for content rating, filtering and recommendation. The exploration of feedback mechanisms in on- and off-line communities. The comparative analysis of visual, textual and other forms of feedback.
Technical and scientific
goals
(1)To develop an interface
prototype that is harmonised characteristics of the Hungarian linguistic and
sociocultural environment.
(2)To develop a system
consisting of different levels of access and a transparent and effective rating
for users and content.
(3)The development of a
visualisation method and a software tool that helps to maximise the efficiency
of data-feedback within the system.
Social goals
(1)To enable the academic
researchers and institutes to cluster around common interests, research goals;
support the developing groups' work, debate and co-operation, and thus promote
a new collaborative model of knowledge production and management that reaches
beyond institutional boundaries.
Economic goals
We expect
the development of the following potential products through this project:
(1)An integrated communication
media application for community communication, optimised for the web.
(2)The
particular modules (engines) of the above application.