Sociosemantic web
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A sociosemantic web consists of semantic links whose meanings are negotiated, like tag or category systems in peer to peer negotiated meaning webs like Wikipedia. Unlike semantic web ideology no single arbiter decides which link types or directives are legitimate, these are considered factionally-defined terms.
[edit] Factionalized
Each faction approaches the sociosemantic web with its own systemic bias, prejudices and rules for exclusion. Like a political party in a democracy, the bureaucracy and electoral system provide a solid foundation on which disputed issues may be resolved.
When dealing with "wicked problems" [1] and the technical complexity and social complexity of solutions proposed to these, sociosemantic webs are thought to allow for relatively stable maps of problems to be created and compared, by limiting the degree to which competing factions are empowered to interfere with each other.
[edit] Examples
- Wikinfo.org and its sympathetic point of view approach to the article's subject
- dKosopedia.com and its explicit alignment with the US Democratic Party's supporters
- Living Ontology Web prototypeed at openpolitics.ca: transparency and accountability
- eg:itself for aligning itself with open configuration and democratic domains
- ecosensus.info bioregional democracy application
[edit] Sources
- In chapter 6 of Ambient findability : What We Find Changes Who We Become, Peter Morville emphasizes the use of "pace-layering of ontologies, taxonomies, and folksonomies to learn and adapt as well as teach and remember.
- In the first (1993) State of the Future Report of the United Nations University Millenium Project, the use of epistemic filters to engage many competing or rival factions in a common web was proposed.
- [3] protects "one of the highest diversity of animal and plant species in the world. This region is also under intense pressure to expand the exploitation of its natural resources, including timber, gold, and commercially viable fish species. The Guyana Darwin Initiative Project is developing geospatial and socio-ecological databases and models as baseline data for monitoring and planning in the region...to produce a monitoring and management plan that will allow the sustainable exploitation of these resources while directly benefiting the long-term interests of the local Makushi community." To this end the project seeks "to develop a distributed computational infrastructure that extends conventional geographical information systems functionality with support for continued collaborative sensemaking: analysis, discussion, conceptual modelling and commitment to action on behalf of vulnerable communities in endangered ecosystems; and to develop the capacity for such distributed, spatial decision-support...through training and an on-line distance-learning, open-source short-course" programs for academic credit at two universities.
