TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– Linking Open Data (LOD) provides a vast amount of well structured semantic information, but many inconsistencies may occur, especially if the data are generated with the help of automated methods. Data cleansing approaches enable detection of inconsistencies and overhauling of affected data sets, but they are difficult to apply automatically. The purpose of this paper is to present WhoKnows?, an online quiz that generates different kinds of questionnaires from DBpedia data sets.Design/methodology/approach– Besides its playfulness, WhoKnows? has been developed for the evaluation of property relevance ranking heuristics on DBpedia data, with the convenient side effect of detecting inconsistencies and doubtful facts.Findings– The original purpose for developing WhoKnows? was to evaluate heuristics to rank LOD properties and thus, obtain a semantic relatedness between entities according to the properties by which they are linked. The presented approach is an efficient method to detect popular properties within a limited amount of triples. Ongoing work continues in the development of sound property ranking heuristics for the purpose of detecting the most relevant characteristics of entities.Originality/value– WhoKnows? uses the approach of “Games with a Purpose” to detect inconsistencies in Linked Data and score properties to rank them for sophisticated semantic search scenarios.
VL  - 8
IS  - 4
SN  - 1741-5659
DO  - 10.1108/17415651111189478
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/17415651111189478
AU  - Waitelonis Jörg
AU  - Ludwig Nadine
AU  - Knuth Magnus
AU  - Sack Harald
ED  - Markus Ketterl
ED  - Lars Knipping
ED  - Nadine Ludwig
ED  - Robert Mertens
PY  - 2011
Y1  - 2011/01/01
TI  - WhoKnows? Evaluating linked data heuristics with a quiz that cleans up DBpedia
T2  - Interactive Technology and Smart Education
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 236
EP  - 248
Y2  - 2024/04/26
ER  -