Happy New Year. Happy Easter. It’s already spring. Well, it took me some time to finish with this blog entry but as you may have noticed via Twitter or my personal blog, there is pretty much going on with Artefact-Actor-Networks right now.

After we presented the AAN model at the CollaborateCom 2009 in Washington, our first implementation of the AAN backend was extended, so we’re now able to analyse Twitter and Wikipedia. Furthermore we’re working on the integration of Delicious, Slideshare and Scribd. Moreover, we’re developing a rating scheme for social media tools in order to find out how well they’d fit into the AAN backend. Regarding the similarity of artefacts, actors and groups we spent many hours of finding the right algorithm and storage mechanism for doing so and found out that it will take tons of storage space and time to do what we initially wanted to do. Luckily there is the PC2 at the University of Paderborn, which will hopefully support our activities with their massive computing power.

Artefact-Actor-Networks have been recognized by several people outside the University of Paderborn and may become part of several project’s work. Within the MATURE project there are approaches of connecting maturing processes with the respective artefacts and enlisted people; within the STELLAR project we discussed how AANs could be used to describe online social interaction within researcher communities and the a researcher from the LeMill project told me how useful Artefact-Actor-Networks will be in their context.

All this is very existing to me and especially the possibility of applying AANs within some real conference scenarios at university courses (such as the FSLN seminar) and conferences and workshops (e.g. ECTEL 2010 or MicroECoP 2010) will help me focusing on what is important for every research: application in real life. So stay tuned and listen for news from the AAN development team…

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