Our work A Semantic Web Vocabulary Supporting Brainstorming for Research Communities has been accepted at WSKS2011. The abstract of the work is the following:

The e-Brainstorming tools represent plausible solutions to improve the e-research community activities with respect to processes regarding idea generation and idea selection. However, the existing e-Brainstorming systems show methodological and technological limitations. The present work proposes a brainstorming model that aims at overcoming the aforementioned limitations by exploiting Social Web and Semantic Web technologies and practices sustaining on-line social dimen- sion, application interoperability, knowledge representation, knowledge sharing and correlation discovery.

The main results discussed in the paper are twofold: BrainSIOC (extensions to SIOC to support idea generation and selection in brainstorming sessions) and the integration among BrainSIOC, SWRC and other existing schemas to support idea management in research communities.

The following image describes the BrainSIOC schema:

The BrainSIOC vocabulary

The following image describes the integration among BrainSIOC, SWRC and other schemas:

Integration of BrainSIOC with SWRC and other existing schemas