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Date: Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:34 AM<br>Subject: Social Semantic Web<br>To: <a href="mailto:econowmix@googlegroups.com">econowmix@googlegroups.com</a><br><br><br><div><a href="http://sharewiki.org/en/Transaction_Graphs" target="_blank">http://sharewiki.org/en/Transaction_Graphs</a></div>
<div><br></div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Semantic_Web" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Semantic_Web</a><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">The</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">�</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><b>social-semantic web</b></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">�</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">(s2w) aims to complement the formal Semantic Web vision by adding a pragmatic approach relying on</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">�</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification_language" title="Specification language" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">description languages</a></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">�</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">for semantic browsing using</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">�</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic_%28computer_science%29" title="Heuristic (computer science)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">heuristic</a></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">�</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">classification and semiotic</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">�</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_%28computer_science%29" title="Ontology (computer science)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">ontologies</a></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">. A socio-semantic system has a continuous process of eliciting crucial knowledge of a domain through semi-formal ontologies,</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">�</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomies" title="Taxonomies" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">taxonomies</a></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">�</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">or</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">�</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomies" title="Folksonomies" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">folksonomies</a></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">.</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">�</span><br>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_Map" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_Map</a></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">The semantic</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">�</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressive_power" title="Expressive power" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">expressivity</a></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">�</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">of Topic Maps is, in many ways, equivalent to that of</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">�</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework" title="Resource Description Framework" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">RDF</a></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">, but the major differences are that Topic Maps (i) provide a higher level of</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">�</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_data_model" title="Semantic data model" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">semantic abstraction</a></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">�</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">(providing a template of topics, associations and occurrences, while RDF only provides a template of two arguments linked by one relationship) and (hence) (ii) allow</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">�</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-ary#n-ary" title="N-ary" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">n-ary</a></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">�</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">relationships (</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergraph" title="Hypergraph" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">hypergraphs</a></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">) between any number of nodes, while RDF is limited to</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">�</span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple" title="Tuple" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">triplets</a></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;">.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Supported_Cooperative_Work" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Supported_Cooperative_Work</a></span></div>
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Over the years, CSCW researchers have identified a number of core dimensions of cooperative work. A non-exhaustive list includes:</p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: sans-serif;">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i>Awareness</i>: individuals working together need to be able to gain some level of shared knowledge about each other's activities.<sup style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Supported_Cooperative_Work#cite_note-dourish92-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank"><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a></sup></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i>Articulation work</i>: cooperating individuals must somehow be able to partition work into units, divide it amongst themselves and, after the work is performed, reintegrate it.<sup style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Supported_Cooperative_Work#cite_note-schmidt92-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank"><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></a></sup><sup style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Supported_Cooperative_Work#cite_note-strauss85-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank"><span>[</span>7<span>]</span></a></sup></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i>Appropriation</i>�(or tailorability): how an individual or group adapts a technology to their own particular situation; the technology may be appropriated in a manner completely unintended by the designers.<sup style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Supported_Cooperative_Work#cite_note-mackay90-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank"><span>[</span>8<span>]</span></a></sup><sup style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Supported_Cooperative_Work#cite_note-dourish03-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank"><span>[</span>9<span>]</span></a></sup><sup style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Supported_Cooperative_Work#cite_note-schmidt91-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); white-space: nowrap;">[</span><font color="#0645ad"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">10</span></font><span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); white-space: nowrap;">]</span></a></sup></li>
</ul><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div></div></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy</a></span></font></div>
<div><font face="sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 19px;"></span><span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><b>Stigmergy</b>�is a mechanism of indirect�<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordination" title="Coordination" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">coordination</a>�between agents or actions. The principle is that the trace left in the�<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_environment" title="Natural environment" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">environment</a>�by an action stimulates the performance of a next action, by the same or a different agent.</span></span></font></div>
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