Hi Olivier, ( cc: Michel, bcc: Seth )we may have been in touch in the past via Michel Bauwens / p2pfoundation.
While browsing the web,I foundin which I then noticed you may be involved ? ( your current site ? http://anoptique.com/wiki/Anoptique )http://autograph.fing.org/texts/PresentationAutograph
Summary : Tools for self-organization of online cooperative social networks
Between sociology of uses and large graphs analysis and visualisation, the aim of Autograph is to develop tools and services for governance of big cooperative organizations on Internet. This exploratory project intends to draw thorough research on several online communities (Debian, Wikipedia, international activists, blogs, SIMS). In order to study the organizational properties of these collectives, the graph theory gives new directions for sociologists, linguists, computer scientists and mathematicians who want to describe social, semantic and computer networks and analyse their structures. The aim of the project is to develop new services of visualization, enabling the actors of the studied communities, to « see » the universe in which they cooperate, in order to help them making decisions about the life of their communities. Cartographic and dynamic representations will be given, enabling an exploration of the structure of the links and the thematic universe of the exchanges. All these results will be developped in a tight relationship with the communities of users.