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I call the theoretical model behind my current research Artefact-Actor-Networks (AANs) and gave them a dedicated place on the web. From today on there is the domain http://artefact-actor-networks.net where you can stay up-to-date regarding this topic.

Curious about what’s an AAN?

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

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We could place another (german) paper at the GeNeMe 2009 conference in Dresden. My former diplomate Therese Friberg will present the findings of her masters thesis, an empirical study on factors for information quality in corporate wikis.

Reference: Therese Friberg and Wolfgang Reinhardt: Ergebnisse einer empirischen Studie zu Informationsqualitätskriterien in Corporate Wikis. In: Proceedings of the GeNeMe 2009, 01./02.10.2009, Dresden.

Here are the slides that will be presented at the conference:

This is the latest draft version of the publication:

Ergebnisse einer empirischen Studie zu Informationsqualitätskriterien in Corporate Wikis

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Together with my colleague Tobias Nelkner I wrote a white paper on our work in progress on self-descriptive widget and the design of an interaction language for widgets. This Widget Self-Description and Interaction Language (WSDIL) will allow the easy orchestration of widgets (for example in a PLE or PLME) and the data exchange between widgets. We tend to let users create their own “pipeline” of interactive widgets that auto-update their content depending on events and actions in other widgets.

This video presents how the drag and drop and data exchange between widgets can work. In the example we show a tag cloud widget, a widget that incorporates the Google search and a widget that represents a chat. If we attach widgets to each other they change their content/representation based on the content of attached widgets.

The next steps will include the realization of filters and selectors to let users choose what kind of data is exchanged between widgets.

The presented work is part of the EU funded project MATURE.

Here you find the white paper on WSDIL. Just tell us what you think (remember it is work/research in progress). Maybe you can point us to similar approaches or ask questions that let us explain our proposition more deply.

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