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Ontology Methodology Building Criteria for Crowdsourcing Innovation Intermediaries

  • Cândida SilvaEmail author
  • Isabel Ramos
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Abstract

Crowdsourcing innovation intermediaries are organizations that mediate the communication and relationship between companies that aspire to solve some problem or to take advantage of any business opportunity with a crowd that is prone to give ideas based on their knowledge, experience and wisdom. A significant part of the activity of these intermediaries is carried out by using a web platform that takes advantage of web 2.0 tools to implement its capabilities. Thus, ontologies are presented as an appropriate strategy to represent the knowledge inherent to this activity and therefore the accomplishment of interoperability between machines and systems. In this paper we present an ontology roadmap for developing crowdsourcing innovation ontology of the intermediation process. We start making a literature review on ontology building, analyze and compare ontologies that propose the development from scratch with the ones that propose reusing other ontologies, and present the criteria for selecting the methodology. We also review enterprise and innovation ontologies known in literature. Finally, are taken some conclusions and presented the roadmap for building crowdsourcing innovation intermediary ontology.

Keywords

Ontology building methodologies Crowdsourcing innovation Innovation ontology Ontology enterprise 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.School of Management and Industrial StudiesPolytechnic Institute of OportoVila do CondePortugal
  2. 2.Information Systems Department, School of EngineeringUniversity of MinhoGuimarãesPortugal
  3. 3.Center AlgoritmiUniversity of MinhoGuimarãesPortugal

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