Social and Semantic Computing in Support of Citizen Science

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dc.contributor.authorSachs, Joel
dc.contributor.authorFinin, Tim
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-14T20:29:22Z
dc.date.available2018-11-14T20:29:22Z
dc.date.issued2011-08-05
dc.descriptionProceedings of the Third Canadian Semantic Web Symposiumen_US
dc.description.abstractWe describe our ongoing work on using social media as a platform for citizen science. Building on our previous work of facilitating citizen science observations, and using RDF to integrate them with existing biodiversity knowledge, we are currently building Facebook Apps that will enable the reporting of observations, as well as the browsing and tagging of existing observations. The tagging capability serves two main purposes. First, it permits (and, we hope, encourages) multi-stage crowdsourcing for image identification. Second, it serves as a driver of ontology evolution, and permits experiments on potential working relationships between expert-engineered ontologies, and tagbased folksonomies.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/572/Social-and-Semantic-Computing-in-Support-of-Citizen-Scienceen_US
dc.format.extent6 pagesen_US
dc.genreconference papers and proceedings preprintsen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2SX64D9R
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/11990
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department Collection
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collection
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dc.subjectSemantic Weben_US
dc.subjectSocial computingen_US
dc.subjectBiodiversity informaticsen_US
dc.subjectCitizen scienceen_US
dc.subjectCollaborative ontology developmenten_US
dc.subjectUMBC Ebiquity Research Groupen_US
dc.titleSocial and Semantic Computing in Support of Citizen Scienceen_US
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