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An ontology for videogame interoperability

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During the last 20 years, video games have become very popular and widely adopted in our society. However, despite the growth on video game industry, there is a lack of interoperability that allow developers to interchange their information freely and to form stronger partnerships. In this paper we present the Video Game Ontology (VGO), a model for enabling interoperability among video games and enhancing data analysis of gameplay information. We describe the creation process of the ontology, the ontology conceptualization and its evaluation. In addition, we demonstrate the applicability of the Video Game Ontology in action with three example games that take advantage of the created ontology. Also, we demonstrate the use of the VGO in enabling interoperability among the example games.

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  1. http://store.steampowered.com/

  2. https://play.google.com

  3. https://www.angrybirds.com/

  4. http://candycrushsaga.com/

  5. http://www.ccpgames.com/

  6. http://dust514.com/

  7. https://www.eveonline.com/

  8. http://secondlife.com/

  9. http://opensimulator.org/

  10. http://musicontology.com/

  11. http://purl.org/net/VideoGameOntology

  12. Competency questions are available at: goo.gl/lxz8yU

  13. http://www.foaf-project.org/

  14. http://purl.org/goodrelations/

  15. http://store.steampowered.com/

  16. http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live

  17. purl.org/goodrelations/

  18. https://schema.org

  19. http://www.igi-global.com/article/oops-ontology-pitfall-scanner/116450

  20. http://linkeddata.uriburner.com:8000/vapour

  21. Shortened link to competency questions: goo.gl/lxz8yU

  22. http://www.igi-global.com/article/oops-ontology-pitfall-scanner/116450

  23. http://linkeddata.uriburner.com:8000/vapour

  24. http://www2.it.lut.fi/GRIP/about

  25. The games are also available for testing at http://www.gamecloudgames.com

  26. Asteroids game is available at http://www.gamecloudgames.com/HTML5-Asteroids

  27. The Asteroids ontology is available at http://w3id.org/games/spec/asteroids

  28. The game is available at http://www.gamecloudgames.com/Coil

  29. The Coil ontology is available at http://w3id.org/games/spec/coil

  30. The game is available at http://www.gamecloudgames.com/BrowserQuest

  31. The Browser Quest ontology is available at http://w3id.org/games/spec/browserquest

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This paper has been supported by the FPU grants (FPU2012/04084 and AP2010-1393) of the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. In addition, the research has been supported by TEKES, the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation.

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  1. School of Business and Management, Innovation and Software, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland

    Janne Parkkila, Jouni Ikonen & Jari Porras

  2. Ontology Engineering Group Madrid, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Filip Radulovic, Daniel Garijo, María Poveda-Villalón & Asunción Gómez-Pérez

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Parkkila, J., Radulovic, F., Garijo, D. et al. An ontology for videogame interoperability. Multimed Tools Appl 76, 4981–5000 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-016-3552-6

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