Re: Can we create better links by playing games?

On 19 June 2012 21:23, Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:

> Dear Jens:
>
> I wonder how this approach is different to the one described in our 2008
> paper [1], available from
>
> http://www.heppnetz.de/files/gwap-semweb-ieee-is.pdf
>

Must watch, Jesse Schell's talk on "Games for Change"

http://vimeo.com/25681002


>
> Martin
>
>
> [1] Games with a Purpose for the Semantic Web, IEEE Intelligent Systems,
> Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 50-60, May/June 2008.
>
> On Jun 19, 2012, at 9:04 PM, Jens Lehmann wrote:
>
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > most of you will agree that links are an important element of the Web of
> Data. There exist a number of tools, such as LIMES [1] or SILK [2], which
> are able to create a high number of such links by using heuristics. The
> manual validation of verification of such links can be quite tedious, so we
> try to find out whether game based approaches can be used to make that task
> much more interesting. We developed the VeriLinks game prototype and ask
> for your help to judge how well the the validation works by playing the
> game and answering a few questions in a survey:
> >
> > Game: http://verilinks.aksw.org
> > Survey: http://surveys.aksw.org/survey/verilinks
> >
> > The survey itself takes only 5 minutes to complete. In addition to
> having the chance to play a game at work ;), there are also great prizes to
> win. 10 randomly selected participants will receive Amazon vouchers:
> >
> > 1st prize: 200 Euro
> > 2nd prize: 100 Euro
> > 3rd prize: 50 Euro
> > 4th - 10th prize: 25 Euro
> >
> > If you want to win a prize, please participate in the survey until this
> *Friday, June 22, 23:59 CET*.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Quan Nguyen and Jens Lehmann
> > (researchers at the AKSW [3] Group, supported by LOD2 [4] and LATC [5])
> >
> > [1] http://limes.sf.net
> > [2] http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/silk/
> > [3] http://aksw.org
> > [4] http://lod2.eu
> > [5] http://latc-project.eu
> >
> >
>
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