The Serbia Forum Hermann Maurer Professor at Graz University of Technology Chair of the Informatics...

The Serbia Forum

Hermann MaurerProfessor at Graz University of Technology Chair of the Informatics Section of Academia Europaea

Veljko MilutinovicUniversity of BelgradeSchool of Electrical Engineering

Zoran OgnjanovicThe Mathematical Institute of SANUIII44006

+ MI SANU III44006

Special acknowledgements to Vladisav Jelisavcic and Aleksandar Mihajlovic

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Wikipedia: A valuable resource to get up-to-date information

Available in many languages:English: ~ 4,000.000 entriesGerman: ~2,000.000 entriesSerbian: ~200.000 entries

However, most entries in the Serbian Wikipedia do not (!) concentrate on Serbia and are quite incomplete.

Our destiny must be in our hands!

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The majority of topics on the Serbian Wikipedia does not deal with Serbia (like the above) and is incomplete (links missing) as the red entries show.

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Forum: Important points of heritage servers

(1) Information must be semantically searchable, by metadata (both, in Forum, and via Google).

Next page shows: We are searching for someone whose name we don‘t know, but we know he was born in Vienna (Wien), was working in physics (Physik),and died in Italy (Italien).

The one person fitting the description, Ludwig Boltzmann, is indeed found.

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(2) Author Visibility: The source of the text must be always known! Either the name of the author including CV, or the book/archive it comes from!

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(3) Evolution Tracking

Updating is dangerous: It destroys previous information and hence history.

When, e.g. an old building is „updated“ (renovated), one cannot experience what it was like before.

The same is true of information! We believe in preservation of information, allowing „time-travel“ by reading about the subject,at various points in time.

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BurgTheaterWien190019652000

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(4) Books are not just a source of information! Web books behave like printed books but also offer some new functions: links, bookmarks, …

10/32Clicking at book opens it. Then one can turn pages or jump to an arbitrary page.

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This screen-shot shows some bookmarks. This icon allows a switch, to an ordinary font. Clicking at one page, only that one is shown, and one can then zoom in (see next page)

12/32The enlarged picture. Note the field that allows full-text search!

When choosing a single page it can be zoomed and moved around arbitrarily

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Bookmark and Link creation

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Full view of Web Book with other features:Click here to see page number and previewPreview of all pages (single page or double page as shown)

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Page from oldbook on a village Obdach.Clicking heregives panoramicview in our days(next page)

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Of Course, Panoramic Pictures, Zoomable, and Moveable

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Of course heritage forums must also contain: Videoclips

(Examples taken from the heritage server called www.austria-forum.org)

Farmer‘sMarket

Famous person in1932

Changing from horse-railway to motorized railway cars (1914)

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Of course heritage forums must also contain:Samples of music

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Of course heritage forums must also contain:Zooming of pictures

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Fori Fully Operational (FP7): Academia Europaea! Austria Serbia

Fori in Works?(1) Germany(2) Swiss(3) England(4) Ireland(5) Italy(6) Spain(7) Slovenia(8) Montenegro, maybe

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Axioms of Serbia Forum:

Secondary

Primary

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Secondary Axioms of Serbia Forum:Temporary differences compared to Wikipedia! May dissappear over time!

(1) Semantic search (2) Author visibility(3) Evolution tracking(4) Original commodities

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Primary Axioms of Serbia Forum: Essential differences compared to Wikipedia!Will stay forever!

(1) National herritage owned by national institutions, exposed by servers under control of these institutions!

(2) National herritage falls into a number of different legal regulatories, not only CC!

(3) Stress on quality and ranking, not quantity and chaos!

(4) Possible semantic culture-oriented translation into a number of relevant foreign languages!

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Heritage Mining1. Collect knowledge in raw form (fill the heritage portal with text, video, audio data…), determine the data clusters, and form the average distances between different clusters (the stride of the algorithm).2. Select a point of interest (time period, geo location, person/object of interest…), and declare it the starting point of the extrapolation process; check the authenticity of the data involved, using heritage portals of other nations (enabler technology).3. Initiate the parameters: maximum search depth (max_depth), current search depth (curr_depth), etc… This sets the foundation for comparison of data in different portals.4. Find all related data-points in the current heritage portal (using standard data mining methods);

a. If no data was found, or too few data points were found, then: i. If curr_depth < max_depth: Find all related heritage portals Repeat the step 4 for all related heritage portalsii. Go to 5.

b. For each data-point found, mine related data-points from related heritage portals.5. Collect all found data-points in step 4 along with their originating heritage portal’s ids.6. If data is found missing in the starting heritage portal, do imputation using collected data;7. If a non-related data point is found in the starting heritage portal, do amputation;8. If inconsistency is found between the collected data-points, do mutation; mutation is best done by combining the data from various heritage portals, and by finding “truth” somewhere in the middle way between data of various portals.9. Extrapolate to a future point and derive a prediction.10. Check the likelihood level of the prediction, be extrapolating into the past; If the extrapolation into the past leads to finding an event that supports the prediction, the likelihood of thee prediction is considered high.

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Examples

27: 1912, 1939, 1966, 1993, 2020, 2047; 1885, 1858, 1831, 1804 Proof by Fourier Transformation

1990: 5, 6, 7, 11; 2, 1Proof by Laplace Transformation

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Gift Conditions(1) Two PhD students, R&D(2) Board(3) Army of senior volunteers(4) Army of junior volunteers(5) A simple server with fast Internet(6) Scanners (2D.portable + 2D.books + 3D)(7) Welcome page small print acknowledgements: Academia Europaea at Royal Society

Austria Forum of Graz Polytechnic Serbia Forum of MISANU

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