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Using a Reputation Framework to Identify Community Leaders in Ontology Engineering
(Short Paper)
Christophe Debruyne and Niels Nijs
Semantics Technology and Applications Research Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BelgiumChristophe.Debruyne@vub.ac.be
Niels.Nijs@vub.ac.be
Abstract. Ontology-engineering methods often prescribe roles and responsibilities. A problem is to identify who will play what role in an ontology-engineering project. We present a generic reputation framework for identifying leaders in a community of stakeholders. Reputation scores are based on analyzing the interactions users have with each other and a collaborative ontology-engineering platform. The framework was applied in an experiment involving 36 users that lasted for 8 weeks. We compared the results with the leaders identified by the participants via a survey and noticed an important overlap. Our results thus show the feasibility of identifying leaders in an ontology-engineering project based on reputation, which can then be assigned additional responsibilities.
Keywords: Ontology Engineering, Roles and Responsibilities
LNCS 8185, p. 677 ff.
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