a model for semantic ties

At CollaborateCom 2009 in Washington D.C. I gave a talk about Artefact-Actor-Networks and introduced the model to experts in the field of collaboration and cooperation in networks. I received very good feedback regarding the semantic relations that can be applied and some additional vocabularities to use. Furthermore there were poeple that saw other concrete usage scenarios for AANs (e.g. Pedestrian Social Networks) that I'd never thought of. Here are the slides from the talk. If you have any questions or comments, just let me know. Artefact-Actor-Networks as tie between social networks and artefact networks View more documents from Wolfgang Reinhardt.

Our paper about Artefact-Actor-Networks has been accepted at the CollaborateCom 2009 in Washington D.C. in november.Matthias and I will go there and introduce the idea to a wider public and ask for feedback for our concepts. I presented some rough sketches about AAN at the ICL 2009 and EC-TEL 2009 conferences and the possibilities to visualize dynamics in communication and collaboration and received very possitive feedback and requests for integration in some projects.

Artefact-Actor-Networks (AANs) are a theoretical model to link social networks and artefact network in order to make claims about the semantic relatedness between users and their respective artefacts. The general goal of AANs is to ease the understanding of how these to knowledge entities (Trier, 2005) are interconnected, how they influence each other and how we can make use of semantic technologies in this field of research. AANs are meant to extend social networks through a layered approach of data storage and the linkage to so called artefact networks. Artefact networks basically represent bits of data from different data sources with some semantical links between them. We hypothesize that we can use the same metrics from social network analysis in artefact networks. In Artefact-Actor-Networks we take a closer look at the multiple levels where communication and collaboration takes place in technology ...