Personalized Web 2.0 Service for Authoritative Content
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Overview
Since traditional peer review employed by scientific technical libraries does not exist for user generated content from blogs, podcasts and videos, here we offer a solution for incorporating Web 2.0 content into scientific libraries by developing a model for authority in Web 2.0 content and an algorithm for combined relevance/authority search with user defined weightings.
Need
Scientific and Technical Information (STI) publishers and libraries face significant challenges in adopting Web 2.0. First, the potential for exploiting knowledge embedded in scientific multimedia content such as blogs, podcasts and videos is not being realized in current STI Web libraries. Second, current STI library services are largely confined to ‘search’ services, thus in need of personalization and collaboration services that enable users to produce and consume ‘user generated content’. And third, information is presently accessed mainly through specialized Web portals designed using digital library and Web 1.0 technologies, tools, and design principles, and without the tools that support content syndication.
Approach
- Research the best practices from popular Web 2.0 communities
- Determine authoritative content types and sources
- Research algorithms for ranking trust in authoritative content in addition to relevance
- Design and develop a prototype Web 2.0 system
Benefits
- More effective scientific collaboration by supplanting formal papers and reports with informal blogs
- More effective syndication, aggregation and consumption of user-generated authoritative content in the STI community
Applications
- Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) information Bridge with Web 2.0 content
References
- Taraborelli, D., "Soft peer review: Social software and distributed scientific evaluation", Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems (COOP ’08), Carry-Le-Rouet, May 20-23, 2008.
