Applications for Social Networking Strategies in an Agency Context

Structure • Context • n2Mate • M3 Alliance • CI-KISS

• Particular problem for governments • Considerable loss of efficiency • Many existing attempts at machine-level solutions

• Does anyone have a wheel like mine? “Who’s doing what” is the central question Obvious failures: lack of interlinkage If you can’t find the right standard when you need it, you’re probably going to make a new one.

For the semantic web to take off, it needs: • Manageable number of ontologies • Vocabularies for tagging open data • Highly re-used • Densely interlinked Otherwise • we get killed by the n-squared mapping problem.... • we get a very large, very sparse network with minimal interoperability.

•Metadata about metadata • Who? o owns it, created it, maintains, uses it, endorses it? • What? o domain, context, process - how is it intended to be used? Does this suit my use case? • Quality of Service? o is it accurate? reliable? verifiable? up-to-date? going to be available when I need it?

Why don't ontologies get reused more often? Too hard to find one Swoogle Ontorank and Termrank We would like a rank based on frequency of use as a Semantic Web document, and we would like to be able to assess suitability for our intended use case!

Some angles on the problem… Foundational Angle: Create foundational techniques for concept definition, so you get interoperability for free Automated Matching Angle: Improve automated matching techniques Social Angle: Encourage more people to use the same ontologies to describe their data, not create new ones.

sented by Renato Iannella n2Mate Exploiting social capital to create a standards-rich semantic network

David Peterson BoaB interactive david@boabinteractive.com.au Anne Cregan National ICT Australia anne.cregan@nicta.com.au Rob Atkinson CSIRO Land & Water rob.atkinson@csiro.au John Brisbin BoaB interactive john@boabinteractive.com.au

•Use-case: new researcher A researcher is preparing her research plan on a section of the Great Barrier Reef. Although she is an experienced marine scientist, she is new to the GBR and to her host research facility.

•Use-case: new researcher 1. standard naming conventions for the GBR regions; 2. standard identifications for the particular reefs; 3. standard data sampling techniques appropriate to the Australian tropics; 4. standard data formats, enumerators, and vocabularies in her datasets; 5. standard citations of agencies, programmes, and people referenced in her work; 6. standard metadata fields and vocabularies to describe her research output; 7. standard project management practice in reporting on her project’s progress.

• Semantic project depends on interlinkage of ontologies, vocabularies, and standards. • Humans are central to that effort. • How to get humans involved effectively?

•Socially-sensitive metadata Create a useful context or else humans find it impossible to express knowledge

• Recognise existing registers and metadata collections • Use existing protocols to construct a register of registers network • Construct facility with social networking devices

• Popularity Rankings: number of times a standards artefact is referenced (implemented). • Authority Badges: mechanism to advertise an authority claim over a standards artefact. • Related to (“Friends of a Standard (FOAS)” ): linkages from standards artefacts to their cohort of implementers. • Trust ratings: showing satisfaction with the custodian of a standards artefact. • Hero worship: most interlinked, most trusted, most useful

A model for n2Mate relationships

•3: Implementation options Re-use and leverage existing tools and standards (self-similarity, fractal integrity)

•Key Components Account and session manager Drupal Bookmarking and annotation tool gnizr Storage of instance data Sesame Semantic interpretation MOAT Policy layer PLING Trust & Governance POWDER

Bootstrap: Test with existing resources Watson Talis Swoogle Sindice Falcons Ping the Semantic Web

Sample interface

M3A: Fitzroy Floods Pilot Monitoring Modeling & Management

M3A: Fitzroy Floods Pilot Stabilise and visualise shared knowledge 21 Agencies with complex juisdictional interlinkages and cultures Community of Practice “Professional Privilege”?

3 steps to grouping behaviour I want to belong to a group I want to contribute to my group I want my group to live

Social tools (again) Exploit social platform techniques: • Popularity Rankings o How many SWDs reference this ontology/artefact? • Authority Badges o a way to assert an authority claim over an artefact • Related to o Who uses this ontology? Which ontologies do my friends or respected cohorts use? • Trust & Satisfaction rankings o how do users feel about this ontology? Do they trust it? Are they satisfied with its QoS parameters?

Automated parsing (Open Calais > Drupal)

Rich visualisation (ThinkMap + Freebase)

Concept pilot (excel)

Intention to act as social change platform • Knowledge • Integration • Synthesis • Service Keep it Sweet and Simple

Researchers, community groups, conservation agencies

Cultural leaders and keepers of tradition

Visitors and students: the next generation of Reef Guardians

Allow many angles to intersect... Encourage insights

• Over Grow organically Connect with new challenges

Internal dynamics

Needs analysis

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Applications for Social Networking Strategies in an Agency Context

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