Abstract
The reach of dominating social media like Facebook and Twitter in the current population is enormous, and these media have long been leveraged for diverse applications. In particular, for some citizen science projects, existing social media increasingly become platforms on which participantsinteract and contribute. These user contributions, often termed User-Generated Content (UGC), can be a mix bag of posts, comments, images, and other media. We report in this paper a work-in-progress in formalizing user contributions from a large Facebook group (more than 4,000 users) established for biodiversity observation. A major part of our work is to extract structured datasets with welldefined semantics from unstructured UGC collections. We use common vocabularies from Darwin Core (DwC), Friendof-A-friend (FOAF), Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC), Semantic Sensor Network (SSN), among others, to formalize the extracted datasets, hence, make them readily linkable. A nice consequence of this approach is that a multi-faceted browser can be quickly built to explore biodiversity information in large collections of UGC.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Workshop on Linked Data on the Web co-located with the 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2014) |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Event | 7th Workshop on Linked Data on the Web 2014 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 8 Apr 2014 → 8 Apr 2014 Conference number: 7 http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2014/ |
Publication series
Name | CEUR workshop proceedings |
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Publisher | Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule |
Volume | 1184 |
ISSN (Print) | 1613-0073 |
Workshop
Workshop | 7th Workshop on Linked Data on the Web 2014 |
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Abbreviated title | LDOW 2014 |
Country/Territory | Korea, Republic of |
City | Seoul |
Period | 8/04/14 → 8/04/14 |
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Keywords
- Citizen science
- Crowdsourcing
- Geosparol
- Linked data
- Sensor network
- User-generated content (UGC)