Transcript UserIA.pptx

Blogs, RSS, and Wikis
Overview
 Blogs
 Definition, history
 Impact, examples
 RSS
 Definition, history
 How it works, examples
 Wikis
 Definition, history
 History, uses
 What does all of this have in common, and why does it matter?
 Definition, impact
 What does this have to do with IA?
Blogs
 Definition
 History
 Pre 1998
 Blog hosting services
 Proliferation
 Impact
 Trent Lott
 The trend continues…
RSS
 Definition
 History
 How it works
 Examples (RSS file and software)
Wikis
 Definition
 History
 Vannevar Bush: the Memex
 Ward Cunningham
 Uses
User-Generated Content
 Definition
 Impact
 “Packaged Goods” media to “Conversational” media
 Passive audiences to active audiences
 What does this have to do with IA?
 Creating a semantic structure to harness collective
intelligence
 Microformats, RDF
 Ongoing issues
 Roles for IAs
“The challenge for the next generation of the Social and Semantic
Webs is to find the right match between what is put online and
methods for doing useful reasoning with the data.”
-Tom Gruber
http://drmatthewashton.com/2011/02/11/great-mistakes-in-politics-no13-trent-lott-praises-stromthurmond/
http://nymag.com/news/media/15971/
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-user-generated-content.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microformat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework
Leuf, B., and W. Cunningham. The wiki way, quick collaboration on the web. Addison-Wesley Professional,
2001.
Heath, T., and C. Bizer. Linked data, evolving the web into a global data space. Morgan & Claypool
Publishers, 2011.
Bush, Vannevar. As We May Think, The Atlantic Monthly, 176(1):101-108, July 1945.
Gruber, Tom. Collective Knowledge Systems: Where the Social Web Meets the Semantic Web, Semantic Web
and Web 2.0, 176(1):4-13, December 2007