Re: Can we create better links by playing games?

On 20 June 2012 17:44, Elena Simperl <elena.simperl@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>wrote:

>  Am 20.06.2012 15:19, schrieb Melvin Carvalho:
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> On 20 June 2012 15:11, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
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>> On 6/19/12 3:23 PM, Martin Hepp wrote:
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>>> [1] Games with a Purpose for the Semantic Web, IEEE Intelligent Systems,
>>> Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 50-60, May/June 2008.
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>>  Do the games at: http://ontogame.sti2.at/games/, still work? The more
>> data quality oriented games the better re. LOD and the Semantic Web in
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>  Hey,
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> Most of the OntoGame games still work, and a more comprehensive list of
> related games is available at http://semanticgames.org/. One of the
> problems I see, however, is that all data collected through such games is
> not accessible or reusable by applications (or in other games, as a matter
> of fact).
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Yes this is a really important point.

If you get the high score it should be part of linked data to your identity
(eg like a badge).  This makes the game 100 times more worthwhile to play!


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>> Others: Are there any other games out there?
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> iand is working on a game:
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> http://blog.iandavis.com/2012/05/21/wolfie/
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