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provenance (3 out of 3)
- Uses the online fiction community; suggests they could benefit from:
- improved searching
- improved meta data
- automatic recommendations
- trust webs
- personalisation.
- A HCI project, so usability tests and comparisons with current systems are key.
- Community centered design
- to determine user needs - through continual interactions and user studies.
- to consider how reader-facing apps present themselves and particular community
- responsibility of being a portal - need clear affordences and points of failure.
- Trust and Semantic Communities
- The semantic web “provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries.⁂ - Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila. The semantic web. Scientic American, May 2001.
- Do we trust:
- metadata
- data
- mechanism by which data is returned
- person requesting data?
- Many definitions of trust.
- Jennifer Golbeck's trust onotology to go with FOAF (Jennifer Golbeck, Bijan Parsia, and James Hendler. Trust networks on the semantic web. In Proceedings of Cooperative Intelligent Agents 2003, 2003.): ratings of 1 - 9 for trust of associates. Extended for FicNet (this paper)
- Here, trust: "the expectations that arise that an individual will not act in a way that is detrimental to another individual or community."
- I might need to expand that for my stuff... maybe... maybe this will do.
- Community predates the Internet. (duh)
- Necessary to get opinions from people outside of the amateur writing community, because it is broad. Such as parents/guardians of members.
- Questionnaire
- General information
- Reading habits
- Community involvement
- Access and distribution of materials
- Questionnaire distributed by:
- requests to archives to pass on to members
- LiveJournal
- emails to specific interested parties
- mailing lists / bulletin boards of relevant special interest groups.
- In two weeks, 1116 responses, from 30 countries.
- Used to inform ontology design for FicNet, and OntoMedia.
- Extension of FOAF, tailored for needs of online readers and writers.
- foaf:person -> fop:persona
- Separates environments for on and offline
- fop:NomDe - context for name
- Illusion of anonymity is fundamental to fanfic community (who are a large part of online amateur writers)
- Most authors have one or more pseudonyms.
- 80% said email address is the most personal information they should be asked for. ('of the 80%, 15% said no personal information should be requested from anyone - does this make sense? Do they mean other than email address? but that's the 80... If they're in the 80, they can't be part of that 15...)
- Privacy is the main thing holding back FOAF (Joseph Smarr. Technical and privacy challenges for integrating foaf into existing applications. Presented at 1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend, Social Networking and the Semantic Web, September 2004.)
- Personas aren't meaningless, because people become very attached to them, and only create new ones for specific reasons (says who? No citation..)
- Expands foaf:document and foaf:groups
- Creation, exchange and review of works is the point of these communities.
- FOP dismisses FOAF info like work and school as irrelevant or potentially dangerous.
- [Me] I think the on/offline divide won't be so extreme for many amateur film makers (another story for consumers) because often their faces are in their movies... Also anecdotal evidence from my own experiences that I'm open to having proven to be a minority. Actors vs characters is an interesting distinction too. One amateur film maker can have many personas, even across one channel of output.
- Options for FOP determined through long term study of metadata commonly attached to works. (Something I can do, too).
- FilmTrust by Golbeck (just joined, it was closed last time I looked).
- Could be prettier... but 2169 members!
- Visualisations of the network - I need to get good at this.
- Reader has to trust info from author falls within a certain level of accuracy. In amateur writing, it is more acceptable to be over cautious than lenient. Differing standards of acceptable content.
- Less trust is lost if a story is underrated than overrated (resulting in disappointment)
- A minority mislabeling work has a big effect on reputation of an archive/community (_HelpingHands community members. A place to pitch in and help - a website _creation resource and project. LiveJournal Community, 2005.)
- Writer has to trust reader to make the right decision.
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FicNet has a more specialised trust system than Golbeck's.
- Largest contention in this field is adult material and younger readers (debated because this contrasts with IRL - no restricted areas in book stores, or suitability rating scheme for books).
- Initially focussed on age.
- Personas could vouch for each other. Creating fake personae to validate another wasn't worth payoff? Non malicious statements of distrust?
- How to integrate trust and distrust webs? Future
- Ontologies developed, ready to be used by applications!
- Ontologies will be continually refined.
- Now designing applications.
- Using info already gathered via quesitonnaire, re: UI, functionality.
- Integrate with OntoMedia to describe works, and link works with people.
Notes about Semantic Web tools for online communities
K. Faith Lawrence & Dr. Monica Schrafel (2007) Amateur Fiction Online - The Web of Community Trust: **A Case Study in Community Focused Design for the Semantic Web. Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia (IAM) Group, School of Electronics and Computer Science, **University of Southampton.
NB. Need to read her full thesis, of the same name. Will probably clear up some of the questions I scribbled whilst reading the paper.
Finding out if Semantic Web tools can be brought to hobbyist groups on the Web.
Related work
Case study
Fan Online Persona (FOP)
Trust
=> How did they get to talk to the parents of younger users? Did they ask the members to put them in touch? That doesn't seem like a realistic expectation to have, to me..
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University 3.0
Even though I don't officially start my PhD until the 1st of October, today really felt like a proper first day of term. I got up early went to a couple of fourth year/MSc classes that I've decided to sit in on (HCI and Text Technologies), went to training for tutoring/demonstrating, filled in some forms, got my new student card (that doesn't expire until 2016!) and most importantly, got the key to my office in the Informatics Forum.
My PhD ideas are vague at best right now, though it'll definitely be within the realms of the Semantic Web. According to the proposal I wrote to apply for the position back in May, it'll be to do with provenance of and collaborative creation of digital media artefacts, like comics and films. It'll be interesting to watch that morph and change.
Though I became aware of Semantic Web stuff during my undergraduate, I developed my knowledge during my MSc at Edinburgh. Primarily by taking the Multi-Agent Semantic Web Systems course for credit, enjoying it a lot and doing pretty well. (I should be TAing/marking for that this year). I also learnt lots about linked data and other such things at conferences and hacks like Dev8D, and various open data meet-ups. I'm super excited about the future of the Internet - particularly making sure it remains an open, public platform for uncensored expression and knowledge sharing (fingers crossed). Since I'm a technologist, not a lawyer or policy-maker, I have to address this with theoretical and practical research around how people create and share things, and ways to improve connectivity (between people and data), which of course includes the big problems like privacy, security and identity.
Whilst I'm confident enough to say I know quite a lot about designing and developing for the Web these days, my Semantic Web knowledge really consists of a basic grounding, and a lot of enthusiasm.
There's a ton of research going on in various related areas, so I've decided to read one or two relevant academic papers a day... forever, I guess... and make notes on what I read. Publishing my notes here works as a subconscious stimulant, to make sure I actually get it done. A lot of them might be foundations, or basic stuff, but I intend to cram as much as possible - especially in the couple of weeks before I start propertly. So look out for those! (If you're interested. If not, ignore them).
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