Posted by aman 46 days ago (Editorial)
Category: root | Tags: incentive
URI: http://www.stylid.org/story/rdf/id/742
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title: INSEMTIVE 2008: 1st Workshop on Incentives for the Semantic Web
co-located-at: 7th International Semantic Web Conference
submission_deadline: 07/25/08
acceptance: 09/05/08
venue: Karlsruhe, Germany
contact: katharina.siorpaes (at) sti2.at
url: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/insemtive2008/

One of the reasons for this state of affairs, almost seven years after the publication of the seminal article on the Semantic Web, has been always considered to be the lack of high quality semantic content. A critical mass of semantically annotated Web pages, semantically enhanced multimedia repositories, as well as business‐relevant, widely‐accepted ontologies would provide a feasible basis for the development of semantic applications of immediate added value for it users, and for the adoption of semantic technologies at industrial level. Despite a mature set of techniques, tools, and methods for authoring semantic content, one can observe very limited user involvement. The lack of semantic content and the missing engagement of users can be traced back to the missing incentive models incorporatd by semantic technology. This is very contrary to the Web 2.0 movement which lives great popularity and a huge amount of user contributions. Even though, there are also many failing Web 2.0 tools, applications like Wikipedia, Del.icio.us, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook or LinkedIn generate enormous user interest and massive amounts of data. Each of those applications implements an incentive that motivates people to contribute their time and human intelligence.
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