A Goal Matching Service for Facilitating Public Collaboration Using Linked Open Data

Abstract

Part 4: Software Platforms and EvaluationInternational audienceInter-organizational collaboration in the public sphere is essentially important to address sustainability problems in contemporary regional societies. To facilitate public collaboration, we are developing a Web application for sharing public issues and their solutions as public goals. Since participating in abstract or general goals is more difficult than concrete or specific ones, our system provides a functionality to break down individual public goals into concrete subgoals. Our Web application, GoalShare, is based on a linked open dataset of public goals that are linked with titles, participants, subgoals, related issues, related articles, and related geographic regions. GoalShare recommends public goals and users on the basis of similarity calculations taking into account not only surficial and semantic features but also contextual features extracted from subgoals and supergoals. We conducted experiments to investigate the effects of contextual features in subgoals and supergoals. Moreover, we conducted a trial workshop with GoalShare in Ogaki city to improve system design through actual use

A linked open data based system utilizing structured open innovation process for addressing collaboratively public concerns in regional societies

“…4 However, they do not support functions for sharing goals and finding potential collaborators in public spheres.…”

“…In our research, we have developed a system for sharing public issues and goals for facilitating open innovation in public spheres and an interface for facilitating collaboration between acting agents in regional government and third sector [3,4]. Figure 1 shows the open innovation process and the relation between the implemented systems.…”

Towards Continuous Collaboration on Civic Tech Projects: Use Cases of a Goal Sharing System Based on Linked Open Data

“…In this situation, a and g could collaborate when they satisfy one or more of the following conditions. In this study, we developed a function for matching a and g based on (a) the similarity of goals [3]. Many prototypes implemented in civic hackathons could have slept without brushing up because many civic hackathons have been held since around 2013 in Japan.…”

“…We have been developing a Web application called GoalShare for sharing such contextual information about collaborative activities by using linked open data (LOD) consisting of social issues and their solutions as goal hierarchies [3,4] In this paper, we describe our application of GoalShare to civic hackathons organized by civic tech communities. A hackathon, a coined term consisting of "hack" and "marathon," refers to a participatory event for prototyping services or applications in a short period such as over the weekend or for several hours.…”