Semantic Web Technologies
• Brief Readings Discussion
• Class work: Research topics and Project
discussion
• Discussion: Collaboration & Social Software
Semantic Collaboration?
• How can software help with forming &
keeping a community?
• How can semantic technologies help?
- Organize the information in easier to act upon
formats
- Make accessing community information easier on
multiple channels & methods
Let’s look at some examples
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Eventful
Upcoming
Sourceforge
Del.icio.us - popular
Digg
Others
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Slashdot
Metafilter
LiveJournal
MySpace
• What do these have in common?
An Architecture of Participation
• The (semantic) Web representing a free
market
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No solution is forced on anyone
(Informed) choice is key
Creating custom solutions to a problem
Sharing your results
• Does SWT make everyone a potential
“developer community” member?
An Attitude of Participation
• Mix and Re-Mix is key (Mashups)
• Things that aren’t from the center are still used &
appreciated
• Are SWT standards helping or hurting?
- Standards are multiple
- Big organizations control them
- People creatively adapt them
• “View Source” for HTML
• Amazon Web Services
• The balance of control is delicate - just like with any
community
- Sponsorship, Venture Capital, Social Capital, Social Good
• What’s the most useful participation tool?
Social Bookmarking Tools
• How are you using them?
• What powers them?
- Utility
- Reputation
• Are these a Community?
• Who agrees on the metadata?
- Does agreement mean you’ve joined?
• What are some Reasons for Tagging?
- Is tagging what makes it social?
• What about Privacy?
- None vs. too much
Tools Diagram
Social Tools for Specific Groups
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Study of Connotea
Who is the group?
What’s different about them?
What are other groups that could work this
way?
• “Second-Order Effects”
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Tag Convergence
(Implicit) Recommendation
Portal Pages (managing interest)
Community?