Workshop on Social and Collaborative
Construction of Structured Knowledge
at 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007)
Banff, Canada, May 8, 2007
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Invited talk
The Stone Soup of Data, Jamie Taylor, Metaweb.
Slides
Abstract:
The fable of Stone Soup describes how small contributions of a scarce resource by a large group can produce a large community resource which has great value to all who use it. Shared Knowledge Repositories are philosophically similar to Stone Soup, but unlike soup, building a structured knowledge repository is challenging in its own right. At a large scale, the myriad of requirements and constraints imposed by various constituents on data modeling can prevent easy, universal participation, thus limiting the repository offering to a specific knowledge domain or application.Freebase is an effort to create an open repository of all the world's information through a collaborative, community driven effort. As such, Freebase must overcome the typical barriers to knowledge modeling and collection in order to create a practical, universal database. To that end, Freebase was designed as a platform where technology and social protocols can be tuned in response to community needs and behavior.
This talk will focus on the ways in which Freebase aims to catalyze community knowledge capture as well as data reuse. We will examine how small contributions by large numbers of users can create robust knowledge networks. The role of the Freebase modeling mechanisms as facilitators for community construction will be discussed, as well as their role in controlled, collaborative experiments and social learning.
About the speaker:
Jamie Taylor is the Minister of Information at Metaweb Technologies, where he tends to Data Gardening and Community Building. His interest in large scale, non-relational data stores grew while serving as CTO and VP of Engineering at DETERMINE Software (now a part of Selectica) where he led teams building user-configurable, Enterprise-class data repositories. He was the founder of one of San Francisco's first ISP's and has a Ph.D. from Harvard University in Behavioral Economics.Schedule
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8:30
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Introduction |
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8:40
- 9:00
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Promotion
of Ontological Comprehension: Exposing Terms and Metadata with Web
2.0 |
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9:00 - 9:20 |
Computer-Supported
Collaborative Knowledge Modeling in Ecology Deana Pennington, Joshua Madin, Ferdinando Villa and Ioannis Athanasiadis |
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9:20
- 9:40
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Improving
Ontology Recommendation and Reuse in WebCORE by Collaborative Assessments Ivan Cantador, Miriam Fernandez and Pablo Castells |
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9:40
- 9:50
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BOWiki
- a collaborative annotation and ontology curation framework Michael Backhaus, Janet Kelso, Joshua Bacher, Heinrich Herre, Robert Hoehndorf, Frank Loebe and Johann Visagie |
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9:50
- 10:00
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Collaboratively
building structured knowledge with DBin: from del.icio.us tags to
an "RDFS Folksonomy" Giovanni Tummarello and Christian Morbidoni |
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10:00
- 10:30
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Break |
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10:30
- 10:50
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Ontology
Maturing: a Collaborative Web 2.0 Approach to Ontology Engineering Simone Braun, Andreas Schmidt, Andreas Walter, Gabor Nagypal and Valentin Zacharias |
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10:50
- 11:00
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SOBOLEO
-- Social Bookmarking and Lighweight Engineering of Ontologies Valentin Zacharias and Simone Braun |
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11:00
- 11:20
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Adding
Value to Biodiversity Images through Community Annotation Greg Riccardi |
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11:20
- 11:40
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Fostering
knowledge evolution through community-based participation Domenico Gendarmi, Fabio Abbattista and Filippo Lanubile |
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11:40
- 11:50
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Distributed
and Collaborative Construction of Ontologies Using Hozo Kouji Kozaki, Eiichi Sunagawa, Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi |
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11:50
- 12:00
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Collaborative
Protégé Tania Tudorache and Natasha Noy |
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12:00
- 13:30
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Lunch |
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13:30
- 14:30
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Invited
Talk: The Stone Soup of Data Jamie Taylor, Metaweb |
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14:30
- 14:50
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Formalization,
User Strategy And Interaction Design: Users’ Behaviour With Discourse
Tagging Semantics Bertrand Sereno, Simon Buckingham Shum and Enrico Motta |
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14:50
- 15:00
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Organizing
Publications and Bookmarks in BibSonomy Robert Jäschke, Miranda Grahl, Andreas Hotho, Beate Krause, Christoph Schmitz and Gerd Stumme |
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15:00
- 15:30
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Break |
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15:30
- 17:30
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CKC Challenge Results and Discussions |