Incentive-Centric Semantic Web Application Engineering (Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web: Theory and Technology) - Softcover

Simperl, Elena; Cuel, Roberta; Stein, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608459950 ISBN 13: 9781608459957

Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

While many Web 2.0-inspired approaches to semantic content authoring do acknowledge motivation and incentives as the main drivers of user involvement, the amount of useful human contributions actually available will always remain a scarce resource. Complementarily, there are aspects of semantic content authoring in which automatic techniques have proven to perform reliably, and the added value of human (and collective) intelligence is often a question of cost and timing. The challenge that this book attempts to tackle is how these two approaches (machine- and human-driven computation) could be combined in order to improve the cost-performance ratio of creating, managing, and meaningfully using semantic content. To do so, we need to first understand how theories and practices from social sciences and economics about user behavior and incentives could be applied to semantic content authoring. We will introduce a methodology to help software designers to embed incentives-minded functionalities into semantic applications, as well as best practices and guidelines. We will present several examples of such applications, addressing tasks such as ontology management, media annotation, and information extraction, which have been built with these considerations in mind. These examples illustrate key design issues of incentivized Semantic Web applications that might have a significant effect on the success and sustainable development of the applications: the suitability of the task and knowledge domain to the intended audience, and the mechanisms set up to ensure high-quality contributions, and extensive user involvement. Table of Contents: Semantic Data Management: A Human-driven Process / Fundamentals of Motivation and Incentives / Case Study: Motivating Employees to Annotate Content / Case Study: Building a Community of Practice Around Web Service Management and Annotation / Case Study: Games with a Purpose for Semantic Content Creation / Conclusions

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About the Author

Elena Simperl works as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton in the UK.She has been active as a SemanticWeb researcher for almost a decade, authoring over 75 publications, and serving as Chair in several relevant scientific conferences, such as the European SemanticWeb Conference, which she coordinated as General Chair in 2012. Elena has been involved in over 20 European and national projects in the field of semantic technologies. Among others she led the European research project INSEMTIVES, which dealt with questions related to this book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1608459950
• ISBN 13: 9781608459957
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 118