| Abstract |
This talk will cover two topics: the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group, which recently completed its final report, and my Ph.D. research in argumentation on the Social Semantic Web
The World Wide Web is a vast source of opinions and viewpoints, embedded in documents, in multimedia, and in the messages people write. Yet making sense from these opinions is challenging, since they are dispersed across different websites and media, with no explicit indication of when people are making the same point, or giving different justifications for the same conclusion. Our vision is to make sense and create knowledge out of the chaos and contradiction of the social web, by creating a knowledge structure that can embrace and express contradictions.
To do so, we focus on connecting opinions to their justifications, defining a "standpoint" as an opinion plus its justification. Our vision is to create a “Standpoints Web” that treats standpoints as first class objects on the Web, connected both to the justifications that people give for them, and to the opposing views on the same topic. The Standpoints Web will be a global knowledge base which can be filtered, queried, and presented for personalized decision-support and for group decision-making.
Bio: Jodi Schneider joined the Digital Enterprise Research Institute as a Ph.D. candidate/researcher in October 2009. She holds an M.A. in mathematics and an M.S. in Library and Information Science. Her research interests are in argumentation, scientific and scholarly communication, and the Social Semantic Web.
Before joining DERI, Jodi founded an open access journal for library technologists (Code4Lib Journal), was community liaison for the research summary wiki AcaWiki, and worked in academic libraries. She recently coauthored the Final Report of the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group. Her current research is on argumentation on the Social Semantic Web, and she serves on the W3C group on Scientific Discourse and Rhetorical Structure in biosciences. |