Title: Feedback in social semantic applications

Authors: Athanasios Mazarakis, Simone Braun, Valentin Zacharias

Addresses: FZI, Research Center for Information Science, Haid-und-Neu Strasse 10-14, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany. ' FZI, Research Center for Information Science, Haid-und-Neu Strasse 10-14, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany. ' FZI, Research Center for Information Science, Haid-und-Neu Strasse 10-14, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

Abstract: This article examines the role of feedback mechanisms in social semantic web applications. It introduces different social semantic applications and the function that system feedback can play in these, although only a small portion of possible roles of feedback in such applications is addressed by the state of the art. The authors present an approach with four concrete feedback mechanisms and an experiment on the use of explicit feedback to foster user contribution and motivation. Finally, the article details the large number of open research questions in this area.

Keywords: semantic web; feedback; collaborative knowledge formalisation; social semantic applications; user contributions; motivation; wikis.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKEDM.2011.040651

International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining, 2011 Vol.1 No.4, pp.291 - 302

Published online: 07 Mar 2015 *

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