TEMIS on Project ROBUST
November 12, 2012
Europe’s ROBUST project seeks to help online business communities with several issues, including large-scale data management and analysis. Now, TEMIS’ Tagline says the project has received positive feedback from scientists and potential clients in “Project ROBUST: Combining Scientific Excellence and Industry Relevance in EU Research Project.” TEMIS is developing infrastructure it says will bring the benefits of ROBUST’s findings to the rest of the world.
ROBUST, which stands for “Risk and Opportunity management of huge-scale BUSiness communiTy cooperation,” emerged as a response to the growing importance of online business communities. The onslaught of participants and posts has grown faster than the tools to manage them. Besides addressing that pressing issue, EU researchers also wondered which factors in these communities boost participation and engagement. The organization tapped experts from companies large and small, as well as some academics, to discover answers. The article tells us:
“As diverse as these challenges are, so are the solutions that start to take shape in the ROBUST project: IT Innovation progresses with an application allowing to model and monitor the various risks a community owner might be facing (experts leaving or exchanges becoming unproductive), Polecat is working on visual metaphors to provide a quick insight into the health of a community while the University of Koblenz is investigating whether and how patterns of agreement and disagreement among participants correlate with their observed participation.”
We agree that this project represents an important step forward. Now, though, we wonder: will European support catch up with companies wrapping more value-adds around basic text processing?
Cynthia Murrell, November 12, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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