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Collective Knowledge Systems: Where the Social Web meets the Semantic Web

What can happen if we combine the best ideas from the Social Web and Semantic Web?

The Vision of Collective Intelligence

Pas de stress, votre billet sera encore meilleur…

Il n’y a pas d’expert en médias sociaux… pas encore.

Les réseaux sociaux, les groupes, les communautés, existent sur le web, avec les uns favorisant l’arrivée des autres. C’est dans cette réalités, qu’une des conséquences directes est le problème identitaire permettant de savoir avec qui ou avec quoi on est en contact. Souvent, il est même mieux de ne pas savoir et tout simplement se concentrer sur l’utilité de la relation sociale qui vient d’être établie. Dans ce cas, lorsqu’il y a un problème, on cherche à savoir le pourquoi. Cela n’empêche que les TIC évoluent vers une imitation presque parfaite de la vie en société et donc par la même occasion, l’identité devient ainsi une issue à prendre en compte, au même niveau que les outils TIC que permettent la création des groupes et communautés.

Abstract The web is rapidly becoming both more open and more social through the provision of technologies that make it easier for end users to access resources and join in social networks. Social networks have pioneered online communities, allowing users to contribute to collective knowledge by tagging online resources. Tagging behavior increased dramatically between 2005 and 2007. This article reports on an investigation of social tagging using data gathered from Delicious, Flickr and YouTube for the years 2005, 2006 and 2007. Preliminary findings indicate both that it is possible to profile a social network through the analysis of tagging data and that Delicious is a more representative venue for analyzing the social tagging behavior of users than either Flickr or YouTube.

Abstract Tools for social networking and social awareness are developing rapidly and evolving continuously. They are gaining popularity in a growing number of professional as well as personal activities, including scholarly research. There are social awareness tools for science researchers that facilitate collaboration, help manage references, and offer options for presenting findings in new ways. This paper discusses those tools. Evaluating and understanding their functionalities requires effort, and scientists can be reluctant to invest the necessary time to learn to use and populate them on their own. This suggests that an important role for librarians is to evaluate the many social awareness tools available, to recommend the ones that are best suited to each researcher's needs, and to help researchers use those tools effectively.

Fourth myth: We know that copyright makes us collectively better off. The evidence points in the opposite direction. Germany had weak copyright laws up until the Copyright Act of 1901. Yet, maybe because of these weak laws, it became a literary and scientific power: (…), only 1,000 new works appeared annually in England at that time – 10 times fewer than in Germany – and this was not without consequences. Höffner believes it was the chronically weak book market that caused England, the colonial power, to fritter away its head start within the span of a century, while the underdeveloped agrarian state of Germany caught up rapidly, becoming an equally developed industrial nation by 1900. (No Copyright Law The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion? by Frank Thadeusz)

Fifth myth: Without copyright, authors would not get paid.

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