Authors: Jeffrey Parsons, Roman Lukyanenko
Tags: 2015, conceptual modeling
The increasing reliance of organizations on externally produced information, such as online user-generated content (UGC), challenges the common assumption of representation by abstraction in conceptual modeling research and practice. This paper evaluates these assumptions in the context of online citizen science that relies on UGC to collect data from ordinary people to support scientific research. Using a theoretical approach based in philosophy and psychology, we propose alternative principles for modeling UGC.Read the full paper here: https://link-springer-com.proxy2.hec.ca/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-25264-3_32
