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=== Project short description ===
JOFS is a Java project concerning the develop of an OWL ontology to store meta informations about files and documents. We have implemented a Java library which mainly permits to create, manipulate and query the ontology and a JEE Web Application to demonstrate a part of our work's characteristics.
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Wikipedia is the largest and most known example of wiki. Thousands of users cooperate within it to build a neutral encyclopedia. But not every user interacts equally: there are users who spend much more time on Wikipedia than others and may influence it.
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With its growing importance in the spread of information some questions are arising: how much can the content of Wikipedia be trusted? Who really writes on it? And what are their aims?
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Our work tries to study the community of users acting on a generic wiki with an automatic, general and modular process.
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The first step consists in the extraction of data from the MediaWiki dump. The second calculates the user contribution for each page of the wiki. Then those users who can be considered the "best" contributors for each page are selected and used to build a Social Network. A standard set of analysis is applied to this network, such as macroscopic study and centrality measures.
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=== Dates ===
 
=== Dates ===
 
Start date: 2008/07/01
 
Start date: 2008/07/01
  
End date: who knows?
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End date: 2009/04/20
  
 
=== People involved ===
 
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== '''Part 2: project description''' ==
 
== '''Part 2: project description''' ==
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=== Aim ===
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[[Media:Tesi Tasso - 23.03.2009.pdf|Project Documentation (in italian)]]
Design and experiment how the semantic web instruments ([http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/ OWL], [http://jena.sf.net/ Jena - Semantic Web Framework] and [http://pellet.owldl.com/ Pellet: The Open Source OWL DL Reasoner]) could be used to semantically store files.
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[[Media:Presentazione Tasso - 20.04.2009.pdf|Project Presentation (in italian)]]
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= Related resources =
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* [http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/ WikiTrust project]
  
=== Our Work ===
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== Software for Social Network Analysis ==
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* [http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/ Pajek: Program for Large Network Analysis]
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* [http://jung.sourceforge.net/ JUNG Java Universal Network/Graph Framework]
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* [http://cneurocvs.rmki.kfki.hu/igraph/ The igraph library]

Latest revision as of 16:57, 11 May 2009

Part 1: project profile

Project name

Techniques to analyze the Wikipedia Social Network

Project short description

Wikipedia is the largest and most known example of wiki. Thousands of users cooperate within it to build a neutral encyclopedia. But not every user interacts equally: there are users who spend much more time on Wikipedia than others and may influence it. With its growing importance in the spread of information some questions are arising: how much can the content of Wikipedia be trusted? Who really writes on it? And what are their aims? Our work tries to study the community of users acting on a generic wiki with an automatic, general and modular process. The first step consists in the extraction of data from the MediaWiki dump. The second calculates the user contribution for each page of the wiki. Then those users who can be considered the "best" contributors for each page are selected and used to build a Social Network. A standard set of analysis is applied to this network, such as macroscopic study and centrality measures.

Schemaprocessi.png

Dates

Start date: 2008/07/01

End date: 2009/04/20

People involved

Project Advisor

David Laniado

Students

Students currently working on the project

Riccardo Tasso - rayman (ta) fastwebnet (tod) it

Part 2: project description

Project Documentation (in italian)

Project Presentation (in italian)

Related resources

Software for Social Network Analysis