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.

Check out www.ontogame.org

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