In the research Lab Knowledge
Management of the DFKI the Open Source Framework
www.gnowsis.org is developed.
Current research projects, i.e. EPOS http://www.dfki.de/epos
build on top of this framework.
The
gnowsis framework is capable of representing all information a person
has in a standardised data format, the Resource Description Framework,
queryable and usable for many
different applications. One of these applications could be a Game Server of the massive online role-playing game Ultima
Online. Imagine a computer game that takes facts from the
real
world (like your email inbox)
and displays them as magical items, floating through a room. Or instead
of reading the news from www.cnn.com
you would implement an avatar that reads the news as town crier.
The possibilities are endless, the goals are high, it is the times of high adventure....
The Diploma thesis would consist of doing research in the field of cyberspace systems. You would search for literature about collaborative tools that enable people to work together or socialize in Virtual Environments. Then you would implement some enhancements to the Open Source projects gnowsis and Wolfpack. A public test of the system will give us feedback, of how people interact with these new tools and what possibilities for humanity lie in the cyberspace. Your written thesis will write all this information together, in english language and understandable for the public.
Perhaps this project will go into computer history like Process Management by DOOM or Augmented Reality Quake.
The
gnowsis framework is capable of representing all information a person
has in a standardised data format, the Resource Description Framework,
queryable and usable for many
different applications. One of these applications could be a Game Server of the massive online role-playing game Ultima
Online. Imagine a computer game that takes facts from the
real
world (like your email inbox)
and displays them as magical items, floating through a room. Or instead
of reading the news from www.cnn.com
you would implement an avatar that reads the news as town crier.The possibilities are endless, the goals are high, it is the times of high adventure....
The Diploma thesis would consist of doing research in the field of cyberspace systems. You would search for literature about collaborative tools that enable people to work together or socialize in Virtual Environments. Then you would implement some enhancements to the Open Source projects gnowsis and Wolfpack. A public test of the system will give us feedback, of how people interact with these new tools and what possibilities for humanity lie in the cyberspace. Your written thesis will write all this information together, in english language and understandable for the public.
Perhaps this project will go into computer history like Process Management by DOOM or Augmented Reality Quake.
The key questions are
- can we visualise desktop information in Ultima Online?
- can intranet pages be represented in Ultima Online?
- can document stores be represented in Ultima Online?
- how do humans interact in a cyberspace world?
- how can this system be used for Knowledge Management?
Your prerequisites are
- basic knowledge about Semantic Web
- some Java & Python & XML
- at least 1 month experience
playing Ultima Online, you have to prove this by casting a few spells
- you have read at least three of these books:
- any book by Neil Stephenson
- any book by William Gibson
- True Names and other dangers
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- the will to go beyond a shard
The Deal
Check the prerequisites, then contact
us. You will have an interesting topic as diploma thesic,
contribute to an open source project and definitely wou will do cool stuff.
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