Thomas Hoppe – författare

This volume addresses renewable energy communities, and in particular renewable energy cooperatives (REScoops), in the context of the revised EU Renewables Directive. It provides a comprehensive account of the history and development of the renewable energy community movement in over six different countries of continental Europe. It addresses their visions, strategy, organisation, agency, and more particularly the challenges they encounter. This is of particular importance to gain more understanding into how renewable energy communities fare in domestic energy markets where they are confronted with regime institutions, structures and incumbents’ agency that tend to favour maintaining of the status quo while blocking attempts to empower and institutionalise renewable energy communities as market entrants having a disruptive, radical green and localist agenda. This volume will be an invaluable reference for academics and practitioners with an interest in social innovation insustainable transitions, the role of community energy in energy markets, their agency, as well as an outlook to the impact that the EU Renewables Directive may have to change national legislation and policy frameworks to create a level playing field that is essentially more fair and beneficial to renewable energy communities.  

This book describes methodologies for developing semantic applications. Semantic applications are software applications which explicitly or implicitly use the semantics, i.e. the meaning of a domain terminology, in order to improve usability, correctness, and completeness. An example is semantic search, where synonyms and related terms are used for enriching the results of a simple text-based search. Ontologies, thesauri or controlled vocabularies are the centerpiece of semantic applications. 

The book includes technological and architectural best practices for corporate use. The authors are experts from industry and academia with experience in developing semantic applications. 

Dieses Buch beschreibt Methoden zur Entwicklung semantischer Anwendungen. Semantische Anwendungen sind Softwareanwendungen, die explizit oder implizit die Semantik, d.h. die Bedeutung einer Domänen-Terminologie, nutzen, um die Benutzerfreundlichkeit, Korrektheit und Vollständigkeit zu verbessern. Ein Beispiel ist die semantische Suche, bei der Synonyme und verwandte Begriffe zur Anreicherung der Ergebnisse einer einfachen textbasierten Suche verwendet werden. Ontologien, Thesauri oder kontrollierte Vokabularien sind das Herzstück semantischer Anwendungen.

Das Buch enthält technologische und architektonische Best Practices für den Einsatz in Unternehmen. Die Autoren sind Experten aus Industrie und Wissenschaft mit Erfahrung in der Entwicklung semantischer Anwendungen.