Motivation Model in Community-Built System - Community-Built Databases: Research and Development - page 192

Fig. 8.1 Relationship
between the creator and the
editor in community-built
systems

Content creation

Motivation

Creator Editor

Content editing

Editor Editor Editor

Task Task

Task
Editors' motivation function

Community-Built
systems
(repository)

Creator's
motivation
function

Creator's
motivation
function

Creator's
motivation
function

Task

Task Task

Fig. 8.2 Schema presenting
the process of filling in the
community-built system

Creator Creator Creator

The main editor's motivation is the content verification, so that it reflects his own
understanding of knowledge in a content repository. Hence, the content is the
editor's main interest focus. Therefore, the editor is responsible for the develop-
ment of a repository. More importantly, the editor is the initiator of motivation. The
repository development is carried out by the editor's action such as selection of a
concept for future improvement conducted by a given creator. The creator's main
motivation is to create high-quality content. The quality of the creator's work
depends on conceptual depth. Moreover, the creator's and editor's motivations
can be influenced by both personal and social factors. The community-built system
can support this with special tools and exclusion of anonymous input.
The discussed motivation model is applied in the content formation situation
(Fig. 8.2 ). The goal of the content formation process is to create high-quality
content as the result of the interaction between actions of content creation, editing,
and populating the content repository. The content in community-built systems can
be described as an ontology that is stored in the knowledge repository. Both the
editors and the creators interact in an environment encompassing community-built
systems. The editor's and creator's motivation function is task dependent. On the
one hand, a task may be formulated to deal with a wide range of concepts. On the
other hand, a task may require further examination of a single concept. Moreover,
every concept is characterized by its cognitive workload. Both the creator and the
editor operate in the community-built system's environment based on the selected