INSEMTIVE2008
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| INSEMTIVE2008 | |
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Insemtive
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| Subevent of | ISWC2008 |
| Start | warning.pngThe date "October 26 2008, 9:00" was not understood. (iCal) |
| End | warning.pngThe date "October 26 2008, 12:30" was not understood. |
| Homepage: | Homepage |
| Location | |
| City: | Karlsruhe |
| Country: | Germany |
| Important dates | |
| Papers due: | August 18 2008 |
| Submissions due: | August 18 2008 |
| Notification: | September 12 2008 |
| Camera ready due: | September 26 2008 |
One of the reasons for this state of affairs, almost seven years after the publication of the seminal article on the Semantic Web, has been always considered to be the lack of high quality semantic content. A critical mass of semantically annotated Web pages, semantically enhanced multimedia repositories, as well as business‐relevant, widely‐accepted ontologies would provide a feasible basis for the development of semantic applications of immediate added value for it users, and for the adoption of semantic technologies at industrial level. Despite a mature set of techniques, tools, and methods for authoring semantic content, one can observe very limited user involvement. The lack of semantic content and the missing engagement of users can be traced back to the missing incentive models incorporatd by semantic technology. This is very contrary to the Web 2.0 movement which lives great popularity and a huge amount of user contributions. Even though, there are also many failing Web 2.0 tools, applications like Wikipedia, Del.icio.us, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook or LinkedIn generate enormous user interest and massive amounts of data. Each of those applications implements an incentive that motivates people to contribute their time and human intelligence.
The workshop will be organized as a full-day event. It is meant as a forum for presenting novel research achievements and their prototypical implementation, as well as for intensive discussions and exchange of ideas.
The workshop program will hence consist of presentations (for full papers and short/position papers), demos, and enough time for an open closing discussion.
[edit] Topics of Interest
The workshop addresses incentives for building the Semantic Web, i.e. achieving tasks, such as ontology construction, semantic annotation, and ontology alignment. It is intended as a networking event for discussing and brainstorming ideas for motivating people to contribute to semantic cotent creation. The workshop also seeks for original academic work in the respective field including:
- Motivations and incentives of several Web 2.0 applications
- Suggestions how those motivations can be applied in Semantic Web applications
- Incentive structures both within enterprise intranets and the open Web
- Games
- Tools exploiting collective intelligence and the “Wisdom of Crowds”
- Community‐driven applications
- Monetary and non‐monetary rewards
- Social applications in general
- Empirical studies on the usage of Web 2.0 or social Semantic Web applications
- Motivations and incentives for annotating Web Services
[edit] Organising Committee
- Katharina Siorpaes, STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Elena Simperl, STI Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Denny Vrandečić, Institut AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
[edit] Program Committee
- Sinuhe Arroyo, University of Alcala de Henares, Spain
- Chris Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
- Dan Brickley, Joost, UK
- Peter Haase, AIFB, Germany
- Tom Heath, Talis, UK
- Nick Kings, BT, UK
- Eyal Oren, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Carlos Pedrinaci, Open University, UK
- Valentina Presutti, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology (CNR), Italy
- Marta Sabou, Open University, UK
- Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research, Austria
- Andreas Schmidt, FZI, Germany
- Hideaki Takeda, NII and University Tokyo, Japan
- Tania Tudorache, Stanford University, USA
- Ilya Zaihrayeu, University of Trento, Italy
- Valentin Zacharias, FZI, Germany
