Check out the Wikipedia Map Interface developed by RENDER! The map is generated out of all geotagged articles in a dozen different language Wikipedias. The dynamic interface allows to zoom into the map and check out the individual articles. The different languages display a strong bias over the different languages.

Find the Wikipedia Map Interface here: http://km.aifb.kit.edu/sites/wikipediamap/

RENDER is proud that the poster “How to represent Knowledge Diversity” by Andreas Thalhammer, Ioan Toma, Rakebul Hasan, Elena Simperl and Denny Vrandecic has been accepted at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2011 in Bonn, Germany.

Abstract:
Information on the Web includes a huge diversity of opinions, viewpoints, sentiments, emotions, and biases. Accordingly, more and more methods, techniques and tools are available to extract these semantics from text. Representation and exchange of diversity-related information can be easily supported by the use of semantic technologies. For this, we introduce the Knowledge Diversity Ontology (KDO).

Download the poster

During the concluding session of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference in Shanghai, the various program committees awarded several prices to outstanding papers, demos, posters and applications. It is our great pleasure to congratulate KIT and RENDER member Dr. Denny Vrandečić, who received a 3rd Place check for his work on “Shortipedia – Aggregating and Curating Semantic Web Data” that he presented jointly with his fellows Varun Ratnakar, Markus Krötzsch, and Yolanda Gil during the Semantic Web Challenge 2010.

Denny wins 3rd Place in ISWC2010 Semantic Web Challenge

The first deliverable has just been released last week. It is a two page overview of the project, it’s partners, and some core figures. Find it here: RENDER Project factsheet

You can also find an overview over the upcoming deliverables on this site.

Cheers!