The document outlines the goals and ongoing projects of the Social Media Research Foundation, which aims to develop open tools, data, and scholarship for social media network analysis. It describes past achievements in open tools and data, as well as future plans to enhance social media research through workshops, tool development, and expanded data sources. Additionally, it invites support through sponsorship and donations to further these initiatives.

2. Who we are

3. What we are trying to do:Open Tools, Open Data, Open ScholarshipBuild the “Firefox of GraphML” – open tools for collecting and visualizing social media dataConnect users to network analysis – make network charts as easy as making a pie chartConnect researchers to social media data sourcesArchive: Be the “Allen Very Large Telescope Array” for Social Media data – coordinate and aggregate the results of many user’s data collection and analysisCreate open access research papers & findingsMake “collections of connections” easy for users to manage

4. What we have done: Open ToolsNodeXLData providers (“spigots”)ThreadMill Message BoardExchange Enterprise EmailVoson HyperlinkSharePointFacebookTwitterYouTubeFlickr

5. What we have done: Open DataNodeXLGraphGallery.orgUser generated collection of network graphs, datasets and annotationsCollective repository for the research communityPublished collections of data from a range of social media data sources to help students and researchers connect with data of interest and relevance

6. What we have done: Open ScholarshipWebshop 2011: NSF, Google, Intel4 Days, 45 Students, 20 SpeakersGreat tweets!Webshop 2012!Expand numbers of students and add a daySupport speakers and student workersWorkshops: Purdue, Maryland, Cape Town, Yeungnam

7. What we have done: Open Scholarship

8. What we want to do: (Build the tools to) map the social webMove NodeXL to the web:Node for Google Doc Spreadsheets!WebGL CanvasConnect to more data sources of interest:RDF, MediaWikis, Gmail, NYT, Citation NetworksSolve hard network manipulation UI problems:Modal transform, Time series, Automated layoutsGrow and maintain archives of social media network data sets for research use.Improve network science education:Workshops on social media network analysisLive lectures and presentationsVideos and training materials

9. 2012 Schedule: Planned Workshops January 2012 - Syracuse UniversityMarch 2012 – SunbeltJune 2012 - ICWSMJuly 2012 – Lipari School on ComplexityAugust 2012 – Webshop 2012

10. Work ItemsAutofill Group AttributeMerge Edges by AttributeModal TransformMerge WorkbooksAutomated Dynamic Filters: Time Series Analysis, contrastCaptions and LegendsUpload to Graph Gallery++: captions, workbookGraph Gallery++ User Accounts, Reporting, RSS Feeds, Network Visualization Web CanvasImport: RDF, Wiki, SharePoint, Keyword networks from textMetrics: Triad CensusLayouts: Force Atlas 2, Lin Log, “Bakshy Plots”, Quality MeasuresQuery-by-example search for network structures

11. How you can helpSponsor a featureSponsor Webshop 2012Sponsor a studentSchedule trainingSponsor the foundationDonate your money, code, computation, storage, bandwidth, data or employee’s timeHelp promote the work of the Social Media Research Foundation

12. Thank you!The Social Media Research Foundation http://www.smrfoundation.org