Title: Motivation mechanisms for participation in human-driven semantic content creation

Authors: Roberta Cuel, Olga Morozova, Markus Rohde, Elena Simperl, Katharina Siorpaes, Oksana Tokarchuk, Torben Wiedenhoefer, Fahri Yetim, Marco Zamarian

Addresses: Department of Management and Computer Science, University of Trento, Via Inama, 5, 38122 Trento, Italy. ' Semantic Technology Institute, Technikerstrasse 21, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria. ' Department of Information Systems and New Media, University of Siegen Holderlinstr, 3, 57076, Germany. ' Semantic Technology Institute, Technikerstrasse 21, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria. ' Semantic Technology Institute, Technikerstrasse 21, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria. ' Department of Management and Computer Science, University of Trento, Via Inama, 5, 38122 Trento, Italy. ' Department of Information Systems and New Media, University of Siegen Holderlinstr, 3, 57076, Germany. ' Department of Information Systems and New Media, University of Siegen Holderlinstr, 3, 57076, Germany. ' Department of Management and Computer Science, University of Trento, Via Inama, 5, 38122 Trento, Italy

Abstract: In the last few years, semantic technologies are continuously maturing and many applications are adopted in various field. To take a step towards overcoming the knowledge acquisition bottleneck, the challenge of generating semantic content persists. It usually requires the involvement of humans, thus motivations and incentives mechanisms that might foster human participation in the semantic content creation should be analysed. We review motivation structures of different successful communities (online communities, social web communities, open source software communities), analyse motivation mechanisms for incentivising semantic content creation, and provide some useful insights for the design of semantic annotation tools which would embed incentives mechanisms.

Keywords: motivation; incentives; semantic content creation; ontology; annotation; participatory design; game theory; knowledge acquisition; bottlenecks; semantic web; online communities; social web communities; open source software communities; virtual communities; web based communities.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKEDM.2011.040653

International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining, 2011 Vol.1 No.4, pp.331 - 349

Published online: 07 Mar 2015 *

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