TY - CPAPER KW - Collaborative systems KW - Content curation KW - crowdsourcing KW - cultural heritage KW - Cultural heritages KW - Intangible cultural heritage KW - Intangible cultural heritages KW - Linked open data KW - Linked open datum KW - Open Data KW - Plants (botany) AU - Marcela Mauricio Yagui AU - Luis Maia AU - Jonice Oliveira AU - Adriana Vivacqua AB - Empirical and Traditional knowledge is part of the concept of intangible cultural heritage, which represents immaterial cultural heritage items such as facts, stories, and traditions that are part of local culture. However, this knowledge might be lost over time. Encouraging public participation to record empirical knowledge is a way to preserve the culture of a region and make it known to others. This paper presents a web system that aims to record and to preserve empirical knowledge data. To achieve this goal, the tool uses three combined approaches: (i) crowdsourcing calls oriented to content creation by visitors; (ii) collaborative curation among experts for selection, evaluation, and publication of content; and (iii) interconnection between user contributions and data already available in open repositories on the web (in LOD format). The tool was applied in the Botany domain to curate empirical and cultural data about medicinal plants, where experts from the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden evaluated it. C2 - Proc. - IEEE/WIC/ACM Int. Conf. Web Intell. Workshops, WI Companion DO - 10.1145/3358695.3360920 LA - English N1 - Journal Abbreviation: Proc. - IEEE/WIC/ACM Int. Conf. Web Intell. Workshops, WI Companion N2 - Empirical and Traditional knowledge is part of the concept of intangible cultural heritage, which represents immaterial cultural heritage items such as facts, stories, and traditions that are part of local culture. However, this knowledge might be lost over time. Encouraging public participation to record empirical knowledge is a way to preserve the culture of a region and make it known to others. This paper presents a web system that aims to record and to preserve empirical knowledge data. To achieve this goal, the tool uses three combined approaches: (i) crowdsourcing calls oriented to content creation by visitors; (ii) collaborative curation among experts for selection, evaluation, and publication of content; and (iii) interconnection between user contributions and data already available in open repositories on the web (in LOD format). The tool was applied in the Botany domain to curate empirical and cultural data about medicinal plants, where experts from the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden evaluated it. PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc PY - 2019 SN - 9781450369886 (ISBN) SP - 322 EP - 326 TI - A Crowdsourcing Platform for Curating Cultural and Empirical Knowledge. A Study Applied to Botanical Collections UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85074319964&doi=10.1145%2f3358695.3360920&partnerID=40&md5=2d5a6d9bb3616bce9a554edaa83541ed ER -