CfP: Special issue on Incentives for Semantic Content Creation in the International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining

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International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining  (IJKEDM)

Call For Papers

Special Issue on: "Incentives for Semantic Content Creation"

Guest Editors : Elena Simperl and Katharina Siorpaes, University of
Innsbruck, Austria
Denny Vrandecic, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany

https://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1066

"The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the
current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning,
better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation."
Berners-Lee et al., The Semantic Web, Scientific American, 2001."

Soon a decade will have passed since the publication of this article,
but the original vision of the Semantic Web still remains to a large
extent unrealised. Web-scale automated computer interaction and
intelligent information processing technology producing added value
for humans still have to become reality. Nevertheless, the Semantic
Web community, academia as well as industry, were very active during
the past decade and their efforts resulted in a wide range of maturing
methodologies, methods, and tools for creating, processing, managing
and using semantic content, be that ontologies or RDF data. A critical
mass of useful semantic content is, however, missing; one can only
find very few, well-maintained and up-to-date domain ontologies on the
Web and even though recently growing, the amount of RDF data publicly
available is limited compared to the size of the traditional Web.

One reason for this state of affairs is the lack of user involvement
in semantic content creation tasks. Only a small number of Web users,
typically members of the Semantic Web community, annotate their Web
resources semantically or build and publish ontologies. This is a
sharp contrast to several Web 2.0 applications, such as Wikipedia,
Del.icio.us, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook or LinkedIn, which exhibit
great popularity and user involvement and generate huge amounts of
data at comparatively low costs and impressively high quality. To
encourage large-scale user participation, the Semantic Web community
has to look into incentive structures and means to motivate humans to
become part of the Semantic Web movement and to contribute their
knowledge and time to create useful ontologies and to use these in
annotating documents, images, videos or even Web services.

In this special issue, we aim to present approaches that tackle the
incentive bottleneck in semantic content creation. In particular we
are looking for high quality research papers describing the way humans
can be effectively involved in the development of useful ontologies,
and the generation of massive amounts of RDF annotations of resources.

Subject Coverage

Topics of interest for the prospective special issue include, but are
not limited to:

    * Motivations and incentives of several Web 2.0 applications and
their application and applicability to the Semantic Web and 	semantic
applications.
    * Incentive structures both within enterprise intranets and the
open Web and their semantic extensions.
    * Games with a purpose for the creation of semantic content,
ontologies as well as RDF data.
    * Tools and applications exploiting collective intelligence and
the "Wisdom of Crowds" in the context of semantic technologies, and
	their respective incentive structures.
    * Community-driven semantic applications.
    * Empirical studies on the usage of Web 2.0 principles to
encourage large-scale user participation in Semantic Web-related
tasks.
    * Instruments to derive and estimate the value of semantic
technologies from quantitative and qualitative criteria.
    * Experience reports and models of the benefits of semantic technologies.

Notes for Intending Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be
currently under consideration for publication elsewhere

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for
authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting
papers are available on the Author Guidelines page

Important Dates

Paper submission: 30 March, 2009

Acceptance notification: 31 May, 2009

Camera ready papers due: 22 June, 2009

Editors and Notes

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an
e-mail (details in Author Guidelines) containing the subject line
"Submission – IJKEDM Special Issue on Incentives for Semantic Content
Creation" to the following email address:

incentives_specialissue@sti2.at

with a copy to:

Editorial Office
E-mail: editorial@inderscience.com

Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the
title of the Journal and the name of the Guest Editor

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