Abstract

Traditional approaches to ontology development have a large lapse between the time when a user using the ontology has found a need to extend it and the time when it does get extended. For scientists, this delay can be weeks or months and can be a significant barrier for adoption. We present a new approach to ontology development and data annotation enabling users to add new metadata properties on the fly as they describe their datasets, creating terms that can be immediately adopted by others and eventually become standardized. This approach combines a traditional, consensus-based approach to ontology development, and a crowdsourced approach where expert users (the crowd) can dynamically add terms as needed to support their work. We have implemented this approach as a socio-technical system that includes: (1) a crowdsourcing platform to support metadata annotation and addition …

Metadata

publication

The Semantic Web–ISWC 2017: 16th International Semantic Web Conference …, 2017

year

2017

publication date

2017

authors

Yolanda Gil, Daniel Garijo, Varun Ratnakar, Deborah Khider, Julien Emile-Geay, Nicholas McKay

link

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-68204-4_24

resource_link

https://iswc2017.semanticweb.org/wp-content/uploads/papers/MainProceedings/139.pdf

conference

The Semantic Web–ISWC 2017: 16th International Semantic Web Conference, Vienna, Austria, October 21-25, 2017, Proceedings, Part II 16

pages

231-246

publisher

Springer International Publishing