Rewarding people is common in several contexts, such as human resource management and crowdsourcing applications. However, designing a reward strategy is not straightforward, as it requires considering different parameters. These parameters include, for example, management of rewarding tasks and identifying critical features, such as the type of rewards and possibilities such as gamification. Moreover, the lack of a common terminology introduces the problem of communication among experts and prevents integration among different reward strategies. An ontology can offer a common understanding among domain experts and flexible management of rewarding parameters. Apart from that, an ontology can also help in the interrelationship and integration between different reward schemes employed by different service providers. In this paper, we present REWARD, a general-purpose ontology for capturing various common features of diverse reward schemes. This ontology is a result of the CAP-A European project and its application to the crowdsourcing domain, but it is designed to cover different needs and domains.
rew | <https://w3id.org/reward-ontology> |
w3id-org | <https://w3id.org> |
ns | <http://creativecommons.org/ns> |
owl | <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl> |
rdf | <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns> |
terms | <http://purl.org/dc/terms> |
xsd | <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema> |
rdfs | <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema> |
vann | <http://purl.org/vocab/vann> |
A WebVowl graphical representation of the REWARD ontology is available below:
Apart from that, a graphical representation of the ontology that includes a CAP-A use case is displayed below:
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#Badge
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#Community_Building
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#Coupon
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#Extrinsic
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#Feedback
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#Gift
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#Intrinsic
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#Other_Extrinsic
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#Other_Intrinsic
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#Platform-Based
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#Point-Based
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#Point_System
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#Reward
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#Self_Improvement
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#Task
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#Task_Level
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#Tier
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#User
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#Visibility
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#belongsTo
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#corresponds_to
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#hasReceived
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#hasTier
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#isMatchedTo
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#isRedeemedBy
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#isRewardedWith
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#performs
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#hasCurrentPoints
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#hasRewardValue
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#hasStatus
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#hasTotalPoints
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#TaskLevelAdjustment
IRI: https://w3id.org/reward-ontology#TierAdjustMent
Ioannis Chrysakis, Giorgos Flouris, Theodore Patkos, Anastasia Dimou and Ruben Verborgh. REWARD: Ontology for reward schemes. ESWC 2020, Poster Session, 2-4, June 2020, Online (To appear).
This work has been supported by the CAP-A project which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the NGI_TRUST grant agreement no 825618. The described research activities were also funded by Ghent University, imec, Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship (VLAIO). Ruben Verborgh is a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO). The authors thank Yannis Roussakis, Elisjana Ymeralli and Elias Tzortzakakis for contributions in the validation process of CAP-A use case.
The authors would like to thank Silvio Peroni for developing LODE, a Live OWL Documentation Environment, which is used for representing the Cross Referencing Section of this document and Daniel Garijo for developing Widoco, the program used to create the template used in this documentation.