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  • Publication
    Finding and analysing energy research funding data: The EnArgus system
    ( 2021)
    Oppermann, Leif
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    Hirzel, Simon orcid-logo
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    Güldner, Alexander
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    Heiwolt, Karoline
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    Krassowski, Joachim
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    Schade, Ulrich
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    Lange, Christoph
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    Prinz, Wolfgang
    This paper presents the concept, a system-overview, and the evaluation of EnArgus, the central information system for energy research funding in Germany. Initiated by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), EnArgus establishes a one-stop information system about all recent and ongoing energy research funding projects in Germany. Participants ranging from laypersons to experts were surveyed in three workshops to evaluate both the public and expert interfaces of the EnArgus system in comparison to peer systems. The results showed that the EnArgus system was predominantly evaluated positively by the various participants. It contributes to making the energy sector more transparent and offers clear advantages for professional use compared to similar systems. The system's semantic processing enables more precise hits and better coverage by including semantically related terms in search results; its intelligence makes it fail-safe, rendering it suitable for areas where poor results can have dire consequences. Reporting on an actual real-world system, the paper also provides a roadmap-view of how electronic filing of administrative project data can be semantically enhanced and opened-up to provide the basis for new ways into the data that are key for future breakthrough AI interfaces.
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    What's going on in energy efficiency research? A platform to enhance the transparency of energy research funding in Germany
    ( 2017)
    Hirzel, Simon orcid-logo
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    Plötz, Patrick orcid-logo
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    Rohde, Clemens orcid-logo
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    Teufel, Benjamin
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    Krassowski, Joachim
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    Beier, Carsten
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    Rauscher, Thomas
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    Frick, Jürgen
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    Schreiner, Michael
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    Wagner, Hermann-Josef
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    Flamme, Stefan
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    Pöstges, Arne
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    Oppermann, Leif
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    Heiwolt, Karoline
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    Ruland, Rudolf
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    Sikorski, Lukas
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    Seier, Maximilian
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    Frietsch, Oliver
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    Koch, Thomas
    Public funding of energy research projects is a major pillar for developing new energy-efficient technologies and concepts. With European energy and climate targets driving such projects, it is becoming challenging to keep up with their ever-increasing number. Our contribution demonstrates how combining the expertise on energy efficiency and renewable energies, linguistic text processing and modern information technology can help to respond to this challenge and thereby render research funding more transparent and accessible to the public. We provide an overview of the German energy research funding information system 'EnArgus'. This web-based system makes it possible to intelligently review and cluster the vast number of publicly-funded energy research projects in Germany carried out since 1970. The core element of the system is an ontology-assisted search engine derived from more than 2,200 short articles, which were specifically prepared for this purpose. These texts cover energy technologies as well as the related basic terminology and concepts. To illustrate the system, we provide an overview of its structure, its main components and a summary of its evaluation as well as important lessons learned from the project. The results of the evaluation indicate that the system is well suited to help structure and access the growing number of publicly-funded energy research projects.
  • Publication
    EnArgus: Zentrales Informationssystem Energieforschungsförderung
    ( 2015)
    Oppermann, Leif
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    Hinrichs, Elke
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    Schade, Ulrich
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    Koch, Thomas
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    Rettweiler, Manuela
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    Ohrem, Frederike
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    Plötz, Patrick orcid-logo
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    Beier, Carsten
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    Prinz, Wolfgang
    Mit EnArgus stellen wir ein interdisziplinäres Projekt von Energieforschern, Informatikern und Linguisten vor: die Erstellung eines zentralen Informationssystems für die Energieforschungsförderung in Deutschland. EnArgus stellt über ein neues Energieforschungs-Wiki für ausgewählte Themenbereiche der Energieforschung eine Fachontologie bereit, die die Basis für intelligentes Suchen in einer großen Datenbank von Fördervorhaben bildet. Die ontologiebasierte Suchmaschine ist das Kernstück des EnArgus-Informationssystems. EnArgus richtet sich an heterogene Zielgruppen, was sich in verschiedenen Benutzerschnittstellenniederschlägt; wir stellen EnArgus.public, EnArgus.master, EnArgus.wiki und die zugrundeliegende Fachontologie vor und skizzieren den Projektverlauf von der Anforderungsanalyse bis zur Evaluation. Abschließend berichten wir über die derzeit laufenden Weiterentwicklungen im Nachfolgeprojekt EnArgus2.0.