Large scale ideation has developed as a promising new way of obtaining large numbers of highly diverse ideas for a given challenge. However, due to the scale of these challenges, algorithmic support based on a computational understanding of the ideas is a crucial component in these systems. One promising solution is the use of knowledge graphs to provide meaning. A significant obstacle lies in word-sense disambiguation, which cannot be solved by automatic approaches. In previous work, we introduce \textit{Interactive Concept Validation} (ICV) as an approach that enables ideators to disambiguate terms used in their ideas. To test the impact of different ways of representing concepts (should we show images of concepts, or only explanatory texts), we conducted experiments comparing three representations. The results show that while the impact on ideation metrics was marginal, time/click effort was lowest in the images only condition, while data quality was highest in the both condition.

Project IKON aims to explore potentials for transferring knowledge generated in research projects at a major Berlin research institution, the Museum für Naturkunde (MfN, natural history museum). Knowledge transfer concerns both the exchange of knowledge among the employees (researchers as well as communicators or management staff), and with the broader public. IKON as a research project coincides with a continuous effort by the research institution to open itself up in terms of its activities and stored knowledge. To understand the specific requirements of IKON, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 5 employees of varying positions (researchers, management staff, employees) at the research institution. Our questions were conceived to understand: (1) what unites individual perspectives of knowledge transfer; (2) by whom and through which means (i.e., actors and infrastructures) is knowledge transfer carried out; (3) where relations between actors and infrastructures in the current state of knowledge transfer need support or intervention. From our results, we infer high-level implications for the design of an application that can support employees of the MfN in (1) collaborating with each other and (2) conceptualize Knowledge Transfer Activities based on semantically related research projects.

The success of crowdsourcing systems such as Wikipedia relies on people participating in these systems. However, in this research we reveal to what extent human and machine intelligence is combined to carry out semi-automatic workflows of complex tasks. In Wikipedia, bots are used to realize such combination of human-machine intelligence. We provide an extensive overview on various edit types bots carry out in this regard through the analysis of 1,639 approved task requests. We classify existing tasks by an action-object-pair structure and reveal existing differences in their probability of occurrence depending on the investigated work context. In the context of community services, bots mainly create reports, whereas in the area of guidelines or policies bots are mostly responsible for adding templates to pages. Moreover, the analysis of existing bot tasks revealed insights that suggest general reasons, why Wikipedia’s editor community uses bots as well as approaches, how they organize machine tasks to provide a sustainable service. We conclude by discussing how these insights can prepare the foundation for further research.

In dem vorliegenden Tagungsband sind die Beiträge des Fachgesprächs Drahtlose Sensornetze 2008 zusammengefasst. Ziel dieses Fachgesprächs ist es, Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus diesem Gebiet die Möglichkeit zu einem informellen Austausch zu geben – wobei immer auch Teilnehmer aus der Industrieforschung willkommen sind, die auch in diesem Jahr wieder teilnehmen.Das Fachgespräch ist eine betont informelle Veranstaltung der GI/ITG-Fachgruppe „Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme“ (www.kuvs.de). Es ist ausdrücklich keine weitere Konferenz mit ihrem großen Overhead und der Anforderung, fertige und möglichst „wasserdichte“ Ergebnisse zu präsentieren, sondern es dient auch ganz explizit dazu, mit Neueinsteigern auf der Suche nach ihrem Thema zu diskutieren und herauszufinden, wo die Herausforderungen an die zukünftige Forschung überhaupt liegen.Das Fachgespräch Drahtlose Sensornetze 2008 findet in Berlin statt, in den Räumen der Freien Universität Berlin, aber in Kooperation mit der ScatterWeb GmbH. Auch dies ein Novum, es zeigt, dass das Fachgespräch doch deutlich mehr als nur ein nettes Beisammensein unter einem Motto ist.Für die Organisation des Rahmens und der Abendveranstaltung gebührt Dank den beiden Mitgliedern im Organisationskomitee, Kirsten Terfloth und Georg Wittenburg, aber auch Stefanie Bahe, welche die redaktionelle Betreuung des Tagungsbands übernommen hat, vielen anderen Mitgliedern der AG Technische Informatik der FU Berlin und natürlich auch ihrem Leiter, Prof. Jochen Schiller.

Explicit semantic enrichment make digital scholarly publications potentially easy to find, to navigate, to organize and to understand. But whereas the generation of explicit semantic information is common in fields like biomedical research, comparable approaches are rare for domains in the humanities. Apart from a lack of authoritative structured knowledge bases formalizing the respective conceptualizations and terminologies, many experts from specialized fields of research seem reluctant to employ the technologies and methods that are currently available for the generation of structured knowledge representations. However, human involvement is indispensable in the organization and application of the domain-specific knowledge representations necessary for the contextualization of structured semantic data extracted from textual and scholarly resources. Over the past decade, various efforts have been made towards openly accessible online knowledge graphs containing collaboratively edited, structured and cross-linked data. Such public knowledge bases might be suitable as a starting point for defining formalized domain knowledge representations, with which the subjects and findings of a research domain can be described. Extensive re-use of the widely adopted shared conceptualizations from a large collaborative knowledge base could be in more than one way beneficial to processes of semantic enrichment, especially those involving domain experts with less-technical backgrounds.

Crowd ideation platforms provide a promising approach for supporting the idea generation process. Research has shown that presenting a set of similar or diverse ideas to users during ideation leads them to come-up with more creative ideas. In this paper, we describe Innovonto, a crowd ideation platform that leverages semantic web technologies and human collaboration to identify similar and diverse ideas in order to enhance the creativity of generated ideas. Therefore, the approach implemented captures first the conceptualization of users' ideas. Then, a matching system is employed to compute similarities between all ideas in near real time. Furthermore, this technical report outlines the results obtained from the evaluation of Innovonto platform. The hallway study, conducted at our research group, allowed us to test each step of Innovonto platform as well as the proposed approach in assessing similarities between ideas. As results, we received 20 ideas and 23 feedbacks from 9 users. The analysis of the results shows good performance of Innovonto steps and confirms the findings of existing research.

Genius Media Group Incorporated is a collaborative annotation platform and was founded by Mahbod Moghadam, Tom Lehman and Ilan Zechory with the aim to annotate lyrics, which have no license and can be interpreted in form of in- line annotation by members. The first version was launched October 2009 as Rap Exegesis, then it changed to Rap Genius in December 2009 and finally in July 2014 the title Genius was given. Genius members have six different roles that are closely tied to authorizations sequentially: Whitehat, Editor, Moderator, Verified Artist, Mediator and Staff. We monitored Genius activities on firehose for five weeks, collected 1.3 million activities, 762 thousand of them are annotation activities1. We registered 57 thousand unique users and found, that users generate on average 13.33 annotation activities in this period of analysis, which is 0.36 annotation activities per day. The distribution over user groups displays the roles Moderator, Staff, Artist, Mediator and Whitehat. Whitehat embodies the most registered user, but when it comes to drive Genius ahead, then those roles are presented in the following sequence: Artist, Staff, Mediator, Moderator, Editor and at the end is the role Whitehat. Intelligence Quotient (IQ) can be earned by the most of activities and indicate experience of a member. Although a count of IQs is required to do certain activities, for instance to post into forums, but it does not promote automatically a member’s role to become a higher member level. High-quality annotations and decision maker such as an Editor establish nomination criteria. Earning IQs implies to edit pages; a page is edited on average 295 times, which varies greatly from the me- dian (195) times. This indicates that some pages attract users more than others. For developers Genius provides API, documentation and support forum as well as there are sub- domains in different countries and languages. We attempt to discover members' collaboration by editing Genius pages and for this purpose we clarify the social, technical and participation architecture of Genius, such as member’s permissions as well as options, activity types and distribution of page edits. The following technical report is structured as follows: Section 2 introduces the social structure of Genius, how to interact with the user interface, being a member and the relation between member roles, annotation and earned IQs. Section 3 continues with the technical structure, in which Genius subdomains are presented, what technical options are there for developers to bind Genius services in applications, firehose as notifications process as well as demographic trends of users at Genius. Section 4 describes our member activities study on Genius and which new findings we determined. Finally, section 5 presents our conclusions.