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The CKC Challenge: Exploring Tools for Collaborative Knowledge Construction

The CKC Challenge: Exploring Tools for Collaborative Knowledge Construction
The CKC Challenge: Exploring Tools for Collaborative Knowledge Construction
The great success of Web 2.0 is mainly fuelled by an infrastructure that allows web users to create, share, tag, and connect content and knowledge easily. The tools for developing structured knowledge in this manner have started to appear as well. However, there are few, if any, user studies that are aimed at understanding what users expect from such tools, what works and what doesn't. We organized the Collaborative Knowledge Construction (CKC) Challenge to assess the state of the art for the tools that support collaborative processes for creation of various forms of structured knowledge. The goal of the Challenge was to get users to try out different tools and to learn what users expect from such tools /features that users need, features that they like or dislike. The Challenge task was to construct structured knowledge for a portal that would provide information about research. The Challenge design contained several incentives for users to participate. Forty-nine users registered for the Challenge; thirty three of them participated actively by using the tools. We collected extensive feedback from the users where they discussed their thoughts on all the tools that they tried. In this paper, we present the results of the Challenge, discuss the features that users expect from tools for collaborative knowledge constructions, the features on which Challenge participants disagreed, and the lessons that we learned.
ontology, web2.0, collaborative knowledge
Stanford Medical Informatics
Noy, Natalya F.
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Chugh, Abhita
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Alani, Harith
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Noy, Natalya F.
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Chugh, Abhita
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Alani, Harith
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Noy, Natalya F., Chugh, Abhita and Alani, Harith (2007) The CKC Challenge: Exploring Tools for Collaborative Knowledge Construction Stanford Medical Informatics 21pp.

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Abstract

The great success of Web 2.0 is mainly fuelled by an infrastructure that allows web users to create, share, tag, and connect content and knowledge easily. The tools for developing structured knowledge in this manner have started to appear as well. However, there are few, if any, user studies that are aimed at understanding what users expect from such tools, what works and what doesn't. We organized the Collaborative Knowledge Construction (CKC) Challenge to assess the state of the art for the tools that support collaborative processes for creation of various forms of structured knowledge. The goal of the Challenge was to get users to try out different tools and to learn what users expect from such tools /features that users need, features that they like or dislike. The Challenge task was to construct structured knowledge for a portal that would provide information about research. The Challenge design contained several incentives for users to participate. Forty-nine users registered for the Challenge; thirty three of them participated actively by using the tools. We collected extensive feedback from the users where they discussed their thoughts on all the tools that they tried. In this paper, we present the results of the Challenge, discuss the features that users expect from tools for collaborative knowledge constructions, the features on which Challenge participants disagreed, and the lessons that we learned.

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Published date: 2007
Keywords: ontology, web2.0, collaborative knowledge
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 264793
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/264793
PURE UUID: 107f2404-4f92-49bc-900e-a2e8ad57b88c

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Date deposited: 07 Nov 2007
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 07:56

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Author: Natalya F. Noy
Author: Abhita Chugh
Author: Harith Alani

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