Adding Semantics to Social Websites for Citizen Science

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dc.contributor.authorParafiynyk, Andriy
dc.contributor.authorParr, Cynthia
dc.contributor.authorSachs, Joel
dc.contributor.authorFinin, Tim
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-29T19:05:50Z
dc.date.available2018-11-29T19:05:50Z
dc.date.issued2007-06-05
dc.descriptionProceedings of the Workshop on Semantic e-Science (AAAI 07)en_US
dc.description.abstractWhile efforts are underway to represent existing ecological databases semantically, so that they may be intelligently queried and integrated by agents, less attention has been paid to 1) rapidly changing datastreams, and 2) unstructured data from amateur observers. We describe the development of two tools that interact with popular social websites as a means to generate and take advantage of semantic web content for citizen science. Splickr, a website, interacts with the Flickr and Yahoo maps APIs to provide a convenient way of browsing and querying Flickr's geotagged photos. SPOTter, a Firefox plug-in, is an aid to semantic ecoblogging. Both tools generate RDF based on rich OWL ontologies. This approach has wide applicability both in and outside science.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was supported by NSF ITR 0326460 and matching funds received from USGS Nat. Bio. Information Infrastructure. We thank Lushan Han and David Wang for helpful discussion. Allan Hollander was even brave enough to try out SPOTter on his own blog.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://aaai.org/Papers/Workshops/2007/WS-07-11/WS07-11-007.pdfen_US
dc.format.extent6 pagesen_US
dc.genreconference papers and proceedings preprintsen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2736M608
dc.identifier.citationAndriy Parafiynyk, Cynthia Parr, Joel Sachs, and Tim Finin, Adding Semantics to Social Websites for Citizen Science, Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic e-Science (AAAI 07), 2007, https://aaai.org/Papers/Workshops/2007/WS-07-11/WS07-11-007.pdfen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/12131
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherAAAIen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
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dc.subjectSemantic Weben_US
dc.subjectSocial Websitesen_US
dc.subjectCitizen Scienceen_US
dc.subjectData streamsen_US
dc.subjectUMBC Ebiquity Research Groupen_US
dc.titleAdding Semantics to Social Websites for Citizen Scienceen_US
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