Platform apparatus for providing qualitative collective knowledge

A method for hosting a web-site with user evaluation, the web-site having a platform device (100) to form a network with a plurality of users or participants for gathering and processing items of user evaluation information stored in a plurality of code-identified and topic-assigned storage spaces (110) of the platform device by the users or participants, wherein:

• the storage spaces (110) allocated to a plurality of topics on the platform are each formed by a dual unit DuU, the dual unit DuU comprising:
• a first storage space (111), assigned to a predefined topic and provided with initial items of information formulated by an initial participant but not edited by any other individual user or participant;
• and
• a second storage space (112), which is assigned to the first storage space (111) and being configured for insertion, by the plurality of users or participants, of supplementary information relating to the initial item of information stored in the first storage space (111), wherein the second storage space (112) is subdivided into an evaluation storage space (113) and a contents storage space (115), the evaluation storage space including a point score storage space (114),
• the method comprising:
• entering by the users or participants in the point score storage space (114) supplementary user evaluation information in the form of qualitative evaluations as point scores ranging from zero to one hundred as assigned by said any one of the users or participants to the predefined topic, ascertained by at least one calculating device (120, 130, 170, 180, 210, 220), of the items of information stored in the first storage space (111), the at least one calculating device (120, 130, 170, 180, 210, 220) being configured so as to produce an item of collective evaluative information as a result of the entered individual qualitative evaluations;
• and
• carrying out a qualitative evaluation by the at least one calculating device (120, 130, 170, 180, 210, 220) by:
• the at least one calculating device calculating a mean of said point scores entered to the point score storage space (114) and assigned by n different users or participants, and storing the calculated mean point score value in the point score storage space (114) the mean point score value being calculated by adding together all point scores ranging from zero to a maximum number of point scores that n users or participants have awarded during the course of each evaluation, and dividing the sum by the number of n users or participants that have submitted an evaluation;
• the at least one calculating device (180) calculating a variance of the point scores entered to the point score storage space (114) and assigned by various users or participants, and storing the calculated variance in the point score storage space (114), the variance being defined as the mean deviation of point scores from the mean point score value ascertained by the first calculating device (120);
• a first copying device (150), at predefined constant time intervals successively interpreting the qualitative evaluations stored in the point score storage space (114) as being useful items of information, and transferring the same to the first storage space (111) while overwriting a relevant previous items of information in the first storage space (111);
• and
• with a timing device, transmitting reset signals to the at least one calculating device and also to the first copying device (150) at said predefined constant time intervals so as to set the at least one calculating device and the first copying device (150) to zero on conclusion of a respective preset time interval, and to repeat the respective currently assigned function of the at least one calculating device and the first copying device (150) in a respective subsequent period of time of equal length.