OntoGame in IEEE Intelligent Systems May 2008

Katharina Siorpaes and Martin Hepp: Games with a Purpose for the Semantic Web. IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 50-60, May/June 2008. Additional data and material: www.ontogame.org/evaluation

OntoTube: coming soon!

OntoTube, the new game for annotating YouTube videos will be released soon. Check back!

OntoGame @ ESWC 2008

We are happy to announce that our paper, describing the OntoGame series, has been accepted for publication at the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2008 in Tenerife, Spain.

In the paper, we describe the OntoGame idea and the generic OntoGame platform. We also delineate gaming scenarios for various tasks plus our respective prototypes. Based on the analysis of user data and interviews with players, we provide preliminary evidence that users enjoy the games and are willing to dedicate their time to those games and are able to produce high-quality conceptual choices.

Reference:
Katharina Siorpaes and Martin Hepp: OntoGame: Weaving the Semantic Web by Online Gaming, Proceedings of the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2008, Springer LNCS, Tenerife, Spain, June 2008. (Forthcoming)

OntoGame Competition: The Winners

The winners of the OntoGame competition are:

1. MVEITH
2. BONZO
3. HLEWEN

We will contact the winners shortly by e-mail.

Congratulations!

The OntoGame Competition: starting NOW!

Win a cool OntoGame T-Shirt in the OntoGame competition: the first three players in the OntoGame ranking on January 31, 2008 at 11:59 pm win one of our cool OntoGame T-Shirts.

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Let's Play!

OntoGame Up and Runnin'!

As some of the OntoGame players might have noticed, OntoGame was offline yesterday due to server problems. However, we fixed them and OntoGame is up and runnin' again.

Please play again :)

Another comment

I like the idea very, very much, and I think it has a very strong potential.

What I like about OntoGame (from the survey)

I like reading bits of wikipedia, and the idea that playing the game is productive, and the collaborative element is a nice idea.

A comment from a survey we conducted

+ Quite a good game mechanic (reliance on speed as well as accuracy) + Nice to feel you're contributing to something useful

A comment by a player

First, I like that it's a way to add more sementic info to the data. More to the game itself, it would be great if there were more variety in the types of items coming up. The frequency of people being the resource started to make it a bit repetitive. (However, the addition of the shortcut to gender info was a smart move). Because I have a bit of knowledge about semantic web ontologies, I sometimes found that that knowledge might be making me choose options that seem quite obvious, but my partner chooses something different. I'd be curious about what data you would get if people were paired according to whether they are familiar with rdf, foaf, skos or whether they are not. I think that I'd respond to the game -- and learn more from it myself -- if I could see that info about my partner. Thanks much--I love the game!