Um modelo para implementação de aplicações da Argument Web integradas com bases de dados abertos e ligados

Abstract

Internet communication and collaboration tools are widely used on the Internet to express opinions and describe views on various subjects. However, they were not designed to support the precise identification of the issues raised, nor to allow the relationship among the elements of the interactions. The observed results are the availability of a large amount of information generated spontaneously by users. Even then, the accurate identification of key discussion elements and their interconnecting relationships as well as their sources is still a challenge. The main goal of Argument Web is related to the definition of an infrastructure to note correctly the arguments of the posted messages and enable these to relate to its various sources. When integrated with the initiative to open and connected databases, the Argument Web has the potential to increase the quality of collaborative discussions on the Internet and to encourage their analysis. However, initiatives for application implementations based on these concepts are still restricted. Even in known applications, the display characteristics and use of open and linked data bases are still little explored. This paper describes a model for the creation of such applications, based on the Argument Interchange Format and the use of Semantic Web languages. We consider our main contributions to be twofold: first, our capability to integrate and link external data sources; and second, augmentation through. A prototype was created and employed in a case study, enabling discussion related to Brazilian government issues, in which good results were observed.