The CKC challenge: Exploring tools for collaborative knowledge construction

The Collaborative-Knowledge-construction field is in primary stage, so if any user studies outline what they expect from such tools and what does or doesn't work, resulted the organization of the Collaborative Knowledge Construction Challenge, which let users try different tools and provide feedback to help in assessment of the state of the art. The challenge was under the auspices of the Workshop on Social and Collaborative Construction of Structured Knowledge, held at the 16th International World Wide Web Conference. Those tools that were domain independent, dealt with structured knowledge, and lets user work collaboratively become part of the CKC challenge. The users were invited to enter information on their research domains and to construct structured knowledge for a hypothetical portal for search information. The users were suggested to start by capturing the information about their own research topics, research groups, publications and conferences, or other events in which they were involved.