[P2P-F] Autograph: Tools for self-organization of online cooperative social networks ?

[Michel Bauwens]

fyi

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <
dante.monson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Olivier, ( cc: Michel, bcc: Seth )
>
> we may have been in touch in the past via Michel Bauwens / p2pfoundation.
>
> While browsing the web,
> I found
> http://autograph.fing.org/ ,
> in 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.
>
>
>


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