Games with a purpose for the Semantic Web

A number of significant approaches, based on interactive games are being used for Semantic Web applications. The game-based approaches are being adopted, as the development of the Semantic Web requires that human users contribute their labor and judgment for creating, extending, and updating formal knowledge structures. The process of performing these tasks, with the help of online game-based approaches presents them in the form of funny and intellectually challenging entertainment. The game-based approaches also help the users in establishing and shaping a positive identity. One of these key approaches is enable human users in having significant control over these tasks and solving problems, which are difficult to be automated, as challenges in multi-player online games. These approaches help the players in generating semantic content, create ontologies, alignments, and metadata for the Semantic Web.