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The INSEMTIVES tutorial “10 Ways to make your Semantic Application addictive” is back at this year’s International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011), October 23-27, 2011, in Bonn, Germany.

Summary

In many application scenarios useful semantic content can hardly be created (fully) automatically, but motivating people to become an active part of this endeavor is still an art more than a science. In this tutorial we will look into fundamental design issues of semantic-content authoring technology – and of the applications deploying such technology – in order to find out which incentives speak to people to become engaged with the Semantic Web, and to determine the ways these incentives can be transferred into technology design.

We will present how methods and techniques from areas as diverse as participation management, usability engineering, mechanism design, social computing, and game mechanics can be jointly applied to analyze semantically enabled applications, and subsequently design incentives-compatible variants thereof. The discussion will be framed by three case studies on the topics of enterprise knowledge management, media and entertainment, and IT ecosystems, in which combinations of these methods and techniques has led to increased user participation in creating useful semantic descriptions of various types of digital resources – text documents, images, videos and Web services and APIs.

Furthermore, we will revisit the best practices and guidelines that have been at the core of an earlier version of this tutorial at the previous edition of the ISWC in 2010, following the empirical findings and insights gained during the operation of the three case studies just mentioned. These guidelines provide IT developers with a baseline to create technology and end-user applications that are not just functional, but facilitate and encourage user participation that supports the further development of the Semantic Web.

All information on the tutorial can be found here.

INSEMTIVES has the pleasure and honor to organize a special session on the topic of semantic annotation for text and media at this year’s IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP2011) to be held in August in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

We welcome submissions until May, 22. For details please consult the conference Web site.

Researchers at the California State University launched a survey to characterize gamers’ personalities following Bartle Test of Gamer Psychology guidelines (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_Test).

You can help them participating in the survey just here. They will definitely appreciate it and everyone will benefit from their findings

The SemTech Startup Competition is back by popular demand, and this year it’s sponsored by STI Americas, Web Media Brands (WEBM) Semanticweb.com and Vator. The contest seeks to identify, recognize and reward the best of the best, the most promising innovative seed-stage startups, Framework Programme 7 (FP7) Projects, NSF Funded and University Projects. It’s the perfect venue to show off new semantic technology products and innovations to an audience of potential investors, receive recognition from peers, gain media exposure, and potentially take home the coveted grand prize.

You can fin all the information at http://vator.tv/competition/semtech-2011/

Go, Playence, go!…

The institute of Applied Informatics at the University of Leipzig organizes the 3rd Leipzig Semantic Web Day. This might be a good opportunity to catch up with the latest developments of semantic web technologies and to get in touch with other researchers and companies that are operating in this field.
The Semantic Web Day is taking place on the 4th and 5th of May 2011. Topic of this year’s event is “Linked Data for the Masses”. Language at the event is going to be German.

More information about the event: http://aksw.org/Events/2011/LeipzigerSemanticWebDay