Re: Can we create better links by playing games?

On 6/20/12 12:39 PM, Gannon Dick wrote:
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> Amen!
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> No silly data-silo games, even in the name of gammification :-)
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> We in the choir have no problem with that.  But I think Barry's other 
> (implied) question around provenance is critical too.  There are many 
> sly commercial tricks to pump up the apparent volatility of a dataset, 
> including adding unlinked identifiers.  I agree the data should be 
> consolidated in the Cloud, but with versions - start use, end use 
> replace with, etc., so the data can learn instead of educate (with 
> perhaps a whole different conclusion in an hour)

Yes!

By no silly data-silo games I also imply what you've staed above.

Re. cloud consolidation, I just want to reiterate that the cloud 
(itself) is federated -- with hyperlinks providing its critical tapestry .

Kingsley.
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> *From:* Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
> *To:* public-lod@w3.org
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:14 AM
> *Subject:* Re: Can we create better links by playing games?
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> On 6/20/12 11:56 AM, Barry Norton wrote:
>> On 20/06/2012 16:52, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>>> On 20 June 2012 17:44, Elena Simperl 
>>> <elena.simperl@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de 
>>> <mailto:elena.simperl@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>> wrote:
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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.
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>>> 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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>> ... and the effective results published as Linked Data, not hidden 
>> away as potential links (classifications, metadata, etc.) in some 
>> closed system.
>>
>> Barry
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> Amen!
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> No silly data-silo games, even in the name of gammification :-)
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