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July 27, 2010
INSEMTIVES wins soccer game
The INSEMTIVES team won the soccer game at the STI International Symposium 2010 in Crete, Greece. It was a lot of fun and we congratulate all participants.
Some impressions:
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July 22, 2010
2nd UAB meeting announced
The 2nd User Advisory Board meeting will take place on May 29, 2011 in Crete, Greece, and is co-located with ESWC 2011. More information can be found here.
Impressions from the 1st UAB meeting:
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June 30, 2010
Award winning project
Prof. Dr. Fensel received an award for the excellent project coordination of INSEMTIVES at the event “Austrian Champions in European Research” from the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG).
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June 01, 2010
News from the front
The News from the Front event at ESWC 2010 provides European projects with a unique opportunity to present themselves to the wider research community and explore potential synergies and co-operations with other projects in a focused and constructive manner.
INSEMTIVES is taking part in this event to find new collaboration partners and to present the current results to interest parties. Our presentation is available here.
May 25, 2010
Winners of the INSEMTIVES Game Idea Challenge!
We proudly present the winners of the INSEMTIVES Game Idea Challenge 2010 and want to thank all participants for their great ideas.
CONGRATULATIONS!
- 1st Place: Phratris
Giuseppe Attardi and the GaLOAp Team,
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa - 2nd Place: Semantic Facebook Sticker Album
Tobias Bürger and Sebastian Schaffert,
Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH - 3rd Place: Massacre
Stefan Thaler,
STI, University of Innsbruck
April 30, 2010
Social event for the User Advisory Board meeting and the SemWiki 2010 workshop
The projects INSEMTIVES and KIWI will organize a joint BBQ for the SemWiki 2010 workshop and the UAB. It will take place on May 30 at the ESWC conference hotel. More details will be released soon.
March 10, 2010
1st User Advisory Board Meeting
May 30, 2010, co-located with ESWC 2010 in Crete
Agenda:
9.30 - 10.00 Project overview (Coordinator)
10.00 - 11.00 Tools presentations (WP4 partners)
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 - 12.30 Open discussion and feedback from UAB
12.30 - 13.00 Closing (Coordinator)
19.00 Social event
Please confirm your attendance to Alice Carpentier until Friday, 19.3.2010 12.00.
February 26, 2010
Call for Papers:
Incentives and Motivation for Web-Based Collaboration (WEBCENTIVES)
Social Web and Semantic Web applications are based on large-scale user participation. Open Source Software projects (OSS), gaming and other online communities are constituted by voluntary engagement of contributors, almost self-organized and self-managed. Also large-scale intranet applications of business companies and non-governmental organizations are increasingly relying on Social/Semantic Web technologies and community-building.
The WEBCENTIVES workshop focuses on motivation structures of users to participate in (online) communities and to contribute to collaborative content creation.
February 18, 2010
Win attractive prizes at the INSEMTIVES Game Idea Challenge!
Useful semantic content cannot be created fully automatically, but motivating people to contribute to this process remains challenging. Our project INSEMTIVES revisits fundamental design issues of semantic-content authoring tools in order to find out which incentives speak to people to become engaged with the Semantic Web, and to determine ways in which such mechanisms can be transferred into technology design. Hiding the technicalities of knowledge engineering, semantic annotation and data integration behind captivating, entertaining games seems to be a promising approach to achieve this goal.
As part of the INSEMTIVES game challenge we are looking for colorful, innovative ideas with a twist for new “games with a purpose”. The purpose, of course, is primarily the creation of useful semantic content, but there are no bounds to your creativity. To get some inspiration, you can have a look at some of our games: OntoPronto and OntoTube, which are about the development and population of an ontology, and the semantic annotation of video content, respectively. Other relevant topics could include the annotation of text, music files, photo collections, but also the interlinking of RDF data sets, their curation, the alignment of data sources, or any other aspect that facilitates the uptake of the Semantic Web.
January 26, 2010
INSEMTIVES is proud sponsor of EKAW 2010 and STI International Symposium 2010
INSEMTIVES has become a sponsor for the 17th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2010) and of the STI International Symposium 2010.
For more information on both events please visit the websites:
October 29, 2009
Peter Reiser, Sun, and Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburger Research, at INSEMTIVES meeting
The INSEMTIVES consortium is happy to welcome two other exciting invited speakers: Peter Reiser from Sun Microsystems and Sebastian Schaffert from Salzburger Research (KIWI project) will be visiting us on Friday, 30th of October, 2009, for an INSEMTIVES-KIWI collaboration meeting in Innsbruck.
October 14, 2009
Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research gave a talk at INSEMTIVES project meeting
Biography
Peter Mika is a researcher and data architect at Yahoo! Research in Barcelona. He received his BS in computer science from Eotvos Lorand University and his MSc and PhD in computer science (cum laude) from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His interdisciplinary work in social networks and the Semantic Web earned him a Best Paper Award at the 2005 International Semantic Web Conference and a First Prize at the 2004 Semantic Web Challenge. He has been co-chair of the Semantic Web Challenge since 2007. Mika is the youngest member elected to the editorial board of the Journal of Web Semantics. He is the author of the book ‘Social Networks and the Semantic Web’ (Springer, 2007). In 2008 he has been selected as one of “AI’s Ten to Watch” by the editorial board of the IEEE Intelligent Systems journal.
Abstract
“Year of the Monkey: Lessons learned from the first year of SearchMonkey”
In this presentation we reflect on the experiences we have gained since the launch of SearchMonkey, Yahoo’s groundbreaking Semantic Web application platform in May, 2008. For most publishers, SearchMonkey provided the first occasion to learn about semantic technologies and reflect on the costs and benefits of providing data in semantic formats such as RDFa. For developers inside and outside Yahoo, it often meant having to learn the somewhat peculiar knowledge representation paradigms of the Semantic Web. As a summary of these experiences, this presentation provides key insights to those interested in what the Semantic Web looks like in action and at a large scale, viewed from the perspective of a search engine provider. It also highlights critical bottlenecks in the adoption of semantic technologies on the Web and therefore should be also of interest for Semantic Web researchers and developers.
July 27, 2009
The INSEMTIVES consortium is happy to welcome another exciting invited speaker: Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research, just confirmed his invited talk at our next project meeting. The meeting is hosted by Telefonica R&D in Madrid in October 2009.
