- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:34:26 -0400
- To: public-lod@w3.org
- Message-ID: <4FE241E2.3070209@openlinksw.com>
On 6/20/12 4:59 PM, Elena Simperl wrote: > Am 20.06.2012 17:52, schrieb Melvin Carvalho: >> >> >> On 20 June 2012 17:44, Elena Simperl >> <elena.simperl@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de >> <mailto:elena.simperl@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>> wrote: >> >> Am 20.06.2012 15:19, schrieb Melvin Carvalho: >>> >>> >>> On 20 June 2012 15:11, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com >>> <mailto:kidehen@openlinksw.com>> wrote: >>> >>> On 6/19/12 3:23 PM, Martin Hepp wrote: >>> >>> [1] Games with a Purpose for the Semantic Web, IEEE >>> Intelligent Systems, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 50-60, May/June >>> 2008. >>> >>> >>> 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 general. >>> >> Hey, >> >> 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). >> >> >> 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! > In fairness, you want the games to be played by a very large user > base, and most of these players will have nothing to do with Linked > Data. They will need other incentives to engage with the game :-) But > the results would be more useful, indeed. They don't have to be overtly aware of Linked Data. We just need to output from gamers to produce Linked Data contributions. > > A second problem that I've seen with the increasing number of games > being released over the past years (including ours) is that they > produce very similar data sets, mostly in general-purpose domains, for > which there are actually knowledge bases available containing that > knowledge (as RDF). Having a standard means to reuse such > crowdsourced data sets would make the games definitely more valuable. Yes! That's why we have efforts such as the LOD cloud, LOD cloud cache etc.. It's all about making bootstrapping a Web-scale virtuous cycle for structured data, enhanced by de-referencable URIs (super keys). Links: 1. http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/ 2. http://lod.openlinksw.com/fct/ 3. http://lod.openlinksw.com/sparql 4. http://lod2.eu/Welcome.html . Kingsley >> >> >> Elena >> >>> >>> Others: Are there any other games out there? >>> >>> >>> iand is working on a game: >>> >>> http://blog.iandavis.com/2012/05/21/wolfie/ >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Kingsley Idehen >>> Founder & CEO >>> OpenLink Software >>> Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com >>> Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen >>> <http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/%7Ekidehen> >>> Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen >>> Google+ Profile: >>> https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about >>> LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Dr. Elena Simperl >> Assistant Professor >> Karlsruhe Institute of Technology >> t:+49 721 608 45778 <tel:%2B49%20721%20608%2045778> >> m:+49 1520 1600994 <tel:%2B49%201520%201600994> >> e:elena.simperl@kit.edu <mailto:elena.simperl@kit.edu> >> >> > > > -- > Dr. Elena Simperl > Assistant Professor > Karlsruhe Institute of Technology > t: +49 721 608 45778 > m: +49 1520 1600994 > e:elena.simperl@kit.edu -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Founder & CEO OpenLink Software Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen
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