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Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 17:39

The ClustTour application is now updated. A number of improvements in both the user interface of the application and the associated data analysis has been implemented. Apart from clusters, there are now two additional elements available:
a) areas: areas can correspond to districts or neighborhoods in a city
b) time slices: time slices correspond to important time intervals for a place.

Visit and use the new ClustTour!

Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 17:36

Three videos have been produced for the dissemination of WeKnowIt. They are all available online:

 

Monday, March 28, 2011 - 14:55

WeKnowIt is coorganizing the 2011 Social Event Detection Task of the MediaEval Nenchmark Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation. This task requires participants to discover events and detect media items that are related to either a specific social event or an event-class of interest. The task is of interest to researchers in the areas of information retrieval, multimedia content analysis, social media analysis, event detection and event-based multimedia indexing.
 

Friday, March 18, 2011 - 17:20

WeKnowIt was externally reviewed during an Advisory Board meeting held in Athens on March 16th, in the context of the regular WKI consortium meeting (March 15-17). The Advisory Board represented Prof. Gregoris Mentzas from the National Technical University of Athens. In the meeting, which lasted a whole working day, all third year's progress was presented and reviewed, and Prof. Mentzas provided valuable feedback to the consortium.

Friday, March 18, 2011 - 12:57

Mobile Facets is an intuitive and easy to use mobile application to access a large, distributed data set of different social media sources on a touchscreen mobile phone. As social media data sources we use DBpedia, geo-located Flickr photos, and the event directories Eventful and Upcoming. In addition, we use professional content from the event directories as well as places described in GeoNames. The users can search and explore the dataset by means of facets and retrieve resources such as places, persons, organizations, and events.

Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 15:39

After nearly 3 years of developing novel techniques, two of the WKI partners, Sheffield City Council and the University of Sheffield, held a joint evaluation exercise on the 22nd of February, at South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Training and Development Centre, in Sheffield, England.

A comparative study of current practices and the new system introduced by WeKnowIt was undertaken by simulating two emergency scenarios: two car crashes, one involving a vehicle containing chemical substances.

Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 15:34

WeKnowIt is organising field trials in three different European cities, aiming at the evaluation of the CSG use case prototypes. A number of independent users are going to test the WeKnowIt travel planner and mobile guidance prototypes in Athens and Krakow, whereas an extra evaluation field test will run in Madrid covering only the mobile guidance prototype. Krakow evaluations are planned for March 7-8, while evaluation in Athens will take place in 10-11 March.

Monday, February 28, 2011 - 11:47

WeKnowIt Technical Coordinator, Sotiris Diplaris, gave an interview presenting WeKnowIt in the context of the event Butterfly EUROPE – When Social Media and Networks Make The European Public Opinion, in Brussels on 12th January 2011.  Among the event participants were members of the European Partliament, lobbyists, bloggers and researchers. Watch the interview here.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - 13:40

WeKnowIt participated in one-2-one meetings at  the EEN Brokerage event in the context of the Mobile World Congress 2011 industrial event during 14-17 February in Barcelona, with the aim to promote the project exploitation potential and possibly achieve industrial cooperations. At the same event several other meetings took place regarding ClustTour and its commercialisation.

Friday, February 18, 2011 - 13:03

10 EU social networks have teamed up and just set up www.socialnetworksgroup.eu. The federated social networks are aka-aki (Germany), Barrabes (Spain), iWiW (Hungary), Hyves (Netherlands), Nasza Klasa (Poland), SAPO (Portugal), Tuenti (Spain), VZnet (Germany), XING (Germany), and Zoo.gr (Greece).

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