Towards continuous collaboration on civic tech projects: Use cases of a goal sharing system based on linked open data

Shun Shiramatsu; Teemu Tossavainen; Tadachika Ozono; Toramatsu Shintani

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-22500-5_7

Towards continuous collaboration on civic tech projects: Use cases of a goal sharing system based on linked open data

Shun Shiramatsu^*, Teemu Tossavainen, Tadachika Ozono, Toramatsu Shintani

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Abstract

Civic hackathon is a participatory event for prototyping of innovative services through collaboration between citizens and engineers towards addressing social issues. Although continuous contributions are needed for improving the prototypes and for applying them to social issues, participants frequently stop contributions after the hackathon due to their day job. To address this problem, we applied our Web system, called GoalShare, which gathers linked open data (LOD) of hierarchical goals to address social issues, to civic hackathons held in the city of Nagoya in Japan. We compared goal structures between two situations. The results showed that goal structures input by team members themselves with enough instruction time were relatively detailed but varied widely among teams, and those input by a single GoalShare user with limited time remained at a simple overview level but had uniform level of detail. A more user-friendly interface usable without instruction is required for real-world situations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Electronic Participation - 7th IFIP 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2015, Proceedings
Publisher	Springer
Pages	81-92
Number of pages	12
Volume	9249
ISBN (Print)	9783319224992
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22500-5_7
Publication status	Published - 2015
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	IFIP 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation - Thessaloniki, Greece Duration: 30 Aug 2015 → 2 Sept 2015 Conference number: 7

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	9249
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	IFIP 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation
Abbreviated title	ePart
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Thessaloniki
Period	30/08/2015 → 02/09/2015

Keywords

Civic tech
Hackathon
Linked open data
Open innovation
Public collaboration

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Shiramatsu, S., Tossavainen, T., Ozono, T., & Shintani, T. (2015). Towards continuous collaboration on civic tech projects: Use cases of a goal sharing system based on linked open data. In Electronic Participation - 7th IFIP 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2015, Proceedings (Vol. 9249, pp. 81-92). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9249). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22500-5_7

Shiramatsu, Shun ; Tossavainen, Teemu ; Ozono, Tadachika et al. / Towards continuous collaboration on civic tech projects : Use cases of a goal sharing system based on linked open data. Electronic Participation - 7th IFIP 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2015, Proceedings. Vol. 9249 Springer, 2015. pp. 81-92 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Shiramatsu, S, Tossavainen, T, Ozono, T & Shintani, T 2015, Towards continuous collaboration on civic tech projects: Use cases of a goal sharing system based on linked open data. in Electronic Participation - 7th IFIP 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2015, Proceedings. vol. 9249, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 9249, Springer, pp. 81-92, IFIP 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, Thessaloniki, Greece, 30/08/2015. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22500-5_7

Towards continuous collaboration on civic tech projects: Use cases of a goal sharing system based on linked open data. / Shiramatsu, Shun; Tossavainen, Teemu; Ozono, Tadachika et al.
Electronic Participation - 7th IFIP 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2015, Proceedings. Vol. 9249 Springer, 2015. p. 81-92 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9249).

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Shiramatsu S, Tossavainen T, Ozono T, Shintani T. Towards continuous collaboration on civic tech projects: Use cases of a goal sharing system based on linked open data. In Electronic Participation - 7th IFIP 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2015, Proceedings. Vol. 9249. Springer. 2015. p. 81-92. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-22500-5_7

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