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- Call for Papers:
Incentives and Motivation for Web- Based Collaboration (WEBCENTIVES) - Win attractive prizes at the INSEMTIVES Game Idea Challenge!
- INSEMTIVES is proud sponsor of EKAW 2010 and STI International Symposium 2010
- Peter Reiser, Sun, and Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburger Research, at INSEMTIVES meeting
- Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research, at INSEMTIVES project meeting
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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.
July 23, 2009
Sebastian Schaffert and “Kiwi” joined our INSEMTIVES project meeting in Innsbruck. Sebastian presented the project and gave a demo of the tools. Additionally, we had some interesting discussions on the topic of community equity. We are planning to follow up on these discussions with a dedicated collaboration meeting in September.
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July 22, 2009
INSEMTIVES has recently initiated a collaboration with the KIWI project. As part of this collaboration Tobias Bürger from STI Innsbruck introduced INSEMTIVES during a KIWI plenary meeting in Prague. Additionally Sebastian Schaffert from the KIWI project gave an presentation of the KIWI project during the INSEMTIVES Q1 meeting in Innsbruck. For more information visit Tobias's blog post where he shares his experiences of the Prague meeting.
July 20-25, 2009
IEEE 2009 Summer School on Semantic Computing
Semantic Computing is currently emerging as a new field that integrates methods from multimedia (computer vision, speech processing), natural language processing, semantic web and ontology engineering, software engineering, and other fields with the goal of creating new applications that connect intuitively formulated user-intentions with the content of data.
The summer school will provide an introduction to the field to senior undergraduate and graduate students. A mix of young and well-established researchers and educators will present recent research results, as for example presented in the IEEE conferences on Semantic Computing or the International Journal on Semantic Computing. The tutorials will be complemented by keynote talks by renowned experts in the areas of Semantic Technologies, Ontologies, Multimedia or Natural Language Processing.
The 6-day event takes place on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley in July 20-25, 2009.
July 16-17, 2009
The INSMETIVES Q1 meeting was held in Innsbruck, Austria. Among the items discussed in the meeting were the completed deliverables, upcoming deliverables, discussions with the case studies, collaboration with other projects as well as dissemination and impact activities. We were also pleased to welcome two invited guests, Michael Fink from Google Israel and Sebastian Schaffert, coordinator of the KIWI project.
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July 14, 2009
At the INSEMTIVES project meeting, we were happy to welcome Michael Fink from Google Israel. We are now looking forward to his talk on YouTube's Collaborative Annotations.
Abstract: YouTube’s Collaborative Annotations
More and more YouTube videos no longer provide a passive
viewing experience, but rather entice the viewer to interact with
the video by clicking on objects with embedded links. These links
are part of YouTube’s Annotations system, which enables content
owners to add active overlays on top of their videos. YouTube
Annotation overlays also enable adding dynamic speech bubbles
and pop-ups which can function as an ever-changing layer of
supplementary information and entertainment, augmenting the
video experience. This paper addresses the question of whether
the ability to add annotation overlays on a given video should be
opened to the YouTube public. The basic dilemma in opening a
video to collaborative annotations is derived from the tension
between the benefits of collaboration and the risks of visual
clutter and spam. We term the degree to which a video is open to
external contributions as the collaboration spectrum, and describe
several models that let content owners to explore this spectrum in
order to find the optimal way to harness the power of the masses.
Biographie:
Michael Fink’s work bridges media research, machine learning and cognitive science. Michael initiated the YouTube interactive video annotations project, which in the last year became a major driving force in making YouTube videos truly interactive. Previously, Michael worked at Google Research, focusing on image and audio fingerprinting for applications such as the “mass personalization” of broadcast television. His PhD research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem focuses on large scale object recognition in humans and machines, generating publications ranging from machine learning, computer vision and artificial intelligence to cognitive science, justice and economics. Recently, Michael has initiated an “innovation studies program” in a joint collaboration with The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Bezalel Design Academy.
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June 19, 2009
The INSMETIVES team from UIBK presented the project poster at this year’s STI International Offsite meeting.
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June 12, 2009
First ACTIVE Summer School on Advanced Technologies for a Knowledge-Powered Enterprise
The First ACTIVE Summer School precedes the European Conference on Machine Learning "European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases - ECML PKDD 2009".
Organised by ACTIVE FP7 Integrated Project and hosted by the Jozef Stefan Institute, the summer school seeks to bring together students, scholars and researchers from industry being being in order to share the recent developments, solutions and technologies from the areas of:
- Semantic technologies and content,
- Social software and Web 2.0,
- Adaptive and context-aware systems,
- Context mining,
- Process mining,
- Knowledge filters,
- Stream mining,
- Anomaly detection,
- Meta learning,
- Forecasting, and
- Social network analysis.
During the three day summer school attendants will have an opportunity to listen to very distinguished invited speakers: Paul Warren (BT), Marko Grobelnik (JSI), Tobias Bürger (STI), Igor Dolinšek (HERMES SoftLab), Rayid Ghani (Accenture), Michael Witbrock (Cycorp), Lise Getoor (University of Maryland), Neel Sundaresan (eBay), Pat Moore (Bloomberg), Paolo Paganelli (Insiel), Denny Vrandečić (KIT), Marcel Tilly (Microsoft), Ian Mulvany (Nature).
Participation is limited to 40 participants. Based on already expressed interest, we expect to receive more applications than there are places available. This is why we ask potential participants to send their expression of interest together with curriculum vitae in pdf format no later than July 1, 2009 to tina.anzic@ijs.si. Selected participants will be notified by July 15, 2009.
The registration fee including accommodation for three nights in a three star hotel and sharing a double room is only 120 EUR. Without accommodation the cost is 50 EUR (teaching materials, refreshments, lunches, and one social event included).
Detailed information about the school, admission and fees can be found at: active09.ijs.si
Questions about the "First ACTIVE Summer School" may be directed to tina.anzic@ijs.si.
April 20, 2009
WEBCENTIVES workshop, co-located with WWW'09, Madrid, Spain, April 20, 2009
April 7-8, 2009
The INSEMTIVES Kick-off meeting takes place in Trento, Italy.
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April 1, 2009
INSEMTIVES project starts!
