2009 Fidis Winter School Fidis.2.0.Advantages And Limitations

“ FIDIS 2.0: Web 2.0 for supporting FIDIS NoE” Making the best use of Web 2.0 in FIDIS: Presentation of work done and analysis of advantages & limitations Thierry Nabeth INSEAD CALT – France FIDIS Doctoral Consortium – Interdisciplinary event Riezlern – Austria 14-18 January 2009

Table of content
Introduction
Web 2.0
What is Web 2.0
The advantages & limitations
FIDIS 2.0: presentation & analysis
Overview
Using Wikis & Wikipedia
Social bookmarking
Online social networking
LinkedIn & facebook groups
Ning community

Table of content (2)
Conclusion & future work
Questions and Answers

Introduction Web 2.0 has proposed interesting approaches for fostering collective intelligence of communities. Its application to the support of a ‘Network’ FIDIS appears ideal

Objectives
Presenting FIDIS 2.0
I.e. the different initiative that have been engaged at using Web 2.0 for supporting the FIDIS Network of Excellence
Analysing FIDIS 2.0
Successes & failures
A reflection for the future
What have we learned? Lessons for the future

What is Web 2.0 Web 2.0 represents a new vision of the web, resulting from a transformation of the vision of the Internet from an information space into a social space . It is also referred to as the social web

Web 2.0
Web 2.0 can fulfil a variety of roles
For supporting collaborative knowledge collection & creation (writable web)
For facilitating networking & team building
For disseminating the results (viral marketing)
The Web 2.0 brings a variety of tools
Wikis, blogs, online social networking, Virtual communities, collaborative tagging, rss, …

Web 2.0
Wikis
Defining terms
Private Wikis; Open Wikis (Wikipedia):
Blog
Using diaries (narratives).
Personal or group blogs.
Managing social networks
LinkedIn; Facebook; Xing; Ning; etc.

Web 2.0
Social Bookmarking / tagging
Sharing resources (bookmarks), and collaborative annotation
del.icio.us; Digg; CiteULike
Aggregators (rss)
netvibes

Wikis
What is a Wiki
A System that can be used to support a community to create collaboratively content
Wikipedia : A huge open digital Encyclopaedia collaboratively authored
684 million visitors yearly by 2008
more than 75,000 active contributors
Dedicated Wikis
Wikis can also be set-up to support small communities & groups to collaboratively author some content (e.g. InCapedia – Encyclopaedia for Intellectual Capital)

More about Wikipedia
Open authoring
Everybody can contribute (no credential required)
(more than 75,000 active contributors )
But … strict supervision
Strict rules such as: No original research
Enforced by over a thousand Wikipedia administrators (and other roles ), as well as bots

More about Wikipedia (2)
Illustration this supervision: (AtGentive)
Creation of an entry describing a project
A “copyright bot” (CorenSearchBot) identify is it is copied from somewhere, and tag it for “speedy deletion”
You explain you have the right, and the article is not deleted
External references are removed (WP is not a links farm).
Some WP the administrators considers there are not enough citation from reliable source. Besides, there is a “conflict of interest”
… (series of back an forth)
… The entry was deleted. (the whole process took a couple of months)

Blogs
What is a Blog
A blog is system consisting in chronologically ordered short posting. Blogs allows to express knowledge in a relatively informal way using narratives that can be commented by others
Personal or topical blogs
A blog is often personal, providing a person the possibility to express an opinion; But it can also be associated to a topic, allowing different people to comment on a subject.
Example: Kim Cameron blog
for expressing his views and commenting on news related to identity

Social bookmarking / tagging
What is a social bookmarking system
Social bookmarking or collaborative tagging provides an extremely simple, distributed, not disruptive but powerful way for a community of people to share bookmarks of internet resources.
Examples
Del.icio.us : Bookmarking, annotating (tagging) and sharing with others resources found on the web
CiteULike : Referencing, annotating (tagging) and sharing with others bibliographical references

What is online social networking
Online Social networking systems can be used to support the creation of social structures (such as groups or social networks) and the diffusion of social awareness (via the activities streams that these systems make available). In these systems, people can describe who they are, and specify who they know.
Examples
Facebook , LinkedIn : Global social networking systems
Ning : Allow to create separate online social networking systems

Online social networking (2)
Managing relationships
The first feature of these systems is to allow people to describe themselves, and to facilitate the management of relationship with others
Social awareness
These systems exploit the social information (who they know) for information filtering
Distributed Knowledge sharing
These systems increasingly offer mechanisms to exchange knowledge with others, but more in a peer-to-peer manner (using one-to-on communication or small forums rather than in centralised in forums).

RSS aggregators
What is a RSS aggregator
A RSS aggregator allows to easily syndicate stream of content available as RSS feeds that web sites publish.
Aggregators allow in a single place to be informed easily of a multiple stream of information
Note: Many web 2.0 systems export RSS feeds sites abstracting the latest information.
Example: Netvibes
Allows the aggregation of stream of information to be created and made available to all.

Web 2.0. Advantages & limitations Setting-up Web 2.0 presents a number of advantages, but also it presents a series of difficulties to make it to work effectively

Web 2.0: Advantages
Fostering & supporting collective Intelligence
Can support the construction and circulation of knowledge in communities
Contribute to the feeling of belonging to community (and motivate people)
Great for supporting pluridisciplinary exchange
Relatively easy to set-up
Many free services and software available
Very little technical expertise required
Awareness by many people today

Web 2.0: Limitations
Difficulty to create social dynamics
some “magic” (social engineering) involved to “make it work”
The question of participation (motivation of people to contribute)
Good practices not necessary known. Risk of social interaction overload
Difficulty to assess the value (cost : benefits). And the “What’s in it for me?” syndromes. People are worry about dedicating too much time. Competition with other approaches.
Trust Issues (social and technical). Risk of social loafing (lurkers), privacy.

Web 2.0 & online identity
The web 2.0: Strong association with online identity
Identity is present in many of Web 2.0 systems. It is even central in online social networking.
Also a playground for research
Many recent research such as self exposure in OSN, false perception of privacy, profiling (digital traces), etc.

FIDIS 2.0 FIDIS 2.0 represents the different Web 2.0 knowledge infrastructures that have been put in place to support FIDIS NoE.

FIDIS 2.0: Expected benefit
Facilitate the functioning of the NoE (collective intelligence) beyond the physical world
Create new knowledge communication channels
Provide ways to extract tacit knowledge (using a variety of forms)
Reinforce the feeling of belonging, and therefore people engagement

FIDISpedia (IdPedia?)
FIDISpedia : An internal Wiki about identity
Integrated in the FIDIS main infrastructure, it started as an internal system to be later opened to the public
Objective of FIDISpedia:
To facilitate the collaborative conceptualisation process of the domain of identity , via the definition of the most important terms

FIDISpedia Results
Results
A number of term defined, but of unequal quality
Participation of only a limited number of member of FIDIS (and not the most senior)
Fail to become the place of reference for identity term in FIDIS

FIDIS in Wikipedia
Objective of FIDIS in Wikipedia :
To make some of the FIDIS results available in Wikipedia
Establish FIDIS presence
Results
Same results
Encountered some difficulties related to the Wikipedia policy (such as no original research)

FIDIS social bookmarking
Del.icio.us used for identifying resources and for annotating content
Tag: fidis (resources generated inside FIDIS)
Tag: fidis_watch (resources outside FIDIS)
Resource available in the FIDIS portal (events)
CiteULike for collecting FIDIS bibliographical references
Note: a group fidis created

FIDIS social bookmarking
Results:
Proved to be very convenient and easy to use
However, very little number of participants to the annotation process
Not many people seem to be using social bookmarking for themselves?

FIDIS OSN
LinkedIn group and FaceBook created
Used to provide people the possibility to express their affiliation to FIDIS
Used to announce some events (group news & discussion)
Results
LinkedIn: 50 people have registered to the group. Facebook : little success
Not very successful for sharing knowledge

FIDIS OSN (2)
FIDIS Ning OSN created ( http:// www.netvibes.com / )
Provide a OSN dedicated to FIDIS
To be used to make people to know about each others, and for instance for contributing to blended learning (such as the PhD event)
Results
More than 30 people have registered
About 50% have put their picture
Only one participants has really been very active: Lothar Fritsch

FIDIS Other tools
FIDIS Netvibes Universe
Agregates in a single place the FIDIS web 2.0 initiatives
FIDIS Blog
Is now not longer active. (the del.icio.us has replaced it as a tool for collecting resources)

Conclusion The Web 2.0: An idea that makes sense, and a great potential for supporting collaboration & networking in a network A low level of adoption & participation, (even by people who have started research in this domain)

Conclusion
The participation challenge
Lack of people familiarly
Lack of perceiving the value? (cost benefit analysis not very positive? Do not really need it?)
Privacy issues?
The future
FIDIS 2.0 appear to be a good idea, but more time will be needed

References
O'Reilly T. (2005); What Is Web 2.0 Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software by Tim O'Reilly, 09/30/2005 (2005)
url: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
Thierry Nabeth (2009); Identity of Identity; Chapter 4 of FIDIS Summit Book.
This chapter include a section describing how the Web 2.0 was used in FIDIS to support the conceptualisation process
Thierry Nabeth (2009b); Idem and Ipse in the context of the Social Web. Or “On the Social Web, Does Everybody Know You're a Dog?”; in Hildebrandt, Koops and de Vries, (editors); FIDIS del D7.14b, 2009
This chapter discusses of the meaning of online identity in the context of the Web 2.0 (social web) and in particular the articulation between the ipse and idem identity in this context.

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