Tag-based approaches to sharing background information regarding social problems towards facilitating public collaboration
Masaru Watanabe, Shun Shiramatsu, Yasuaki Goto · 2017
Sharing background information regarding social problems and collaborative projects is indispensable for inter-organizational collaboration in civic tech activities, i.e., activities for addressing social problems using information technologies. In this paper, we propose two tag-based approaches to sharing background information regarding social problems: (1) automatic annotation of related Web articles with social problem tags and (2) sharing activity status of collaborative projects for addressing social problems. Approach (1) involves extracting an ontology of social problems from the category "Social Problem" in DBpedia Japanese and implementing a prototype Web API that recommends social problem tags for specified URLs. We conducted preliminary experiments for evaluating the accuracy of tag recommendation. Approach (2) involves linked open data that represent the activity status of collaborative projects by implementing two systems we previously developed. The social problem tags can also be used for sharing collaborative activities. We are planning to use the outcomes of both approaches for facilitating public debate and collaboration.