[Air-L] Any room for our new social software!

[laetitia le chatton]

Hello again Elijah,

apologies for cross posting

i did not replied yet to that part fo your mail :

You might have luck looking for funding / publishing opportunities related
> to:
> - semantic web / linked open data
> - ontology development
> - knowledge management / document management
> - information discovery / inquiry


- semantic web / linked open data
I have to exclude the sematic web. the goal looks similar namely letting
users getting the feeling a search engine takes semantics into account
rather than experiencing keyword based information retrieval
But i don't aim at extracting or representing semantic out of a domain
knowledge but let users create conversations (not website :-)

- ontology development :
yes! I played and redefined the concept

- knowledge management / document management
- information discovery / inquiry
yes yes! any link for me?

Also with my friend (and team member) we got a fight around your use of
expression "finite state machine". I take it, in the context of your mail,
as :

finite (not a platform) + state (domain or out of domain state for ex) +
machine (the motor)

but the neardy engineer reminds that every turing machine is a
"finite-state machine" and we do have a turing machine here :-)

Best





On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Elijah Wright <elijah.wright at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:22 AM, laetitia le chatton
> <laetitia.lechatton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Shortly, the Socrator is a motor for conversations
>
> I really like the idea of "a motor for conversations" - like a finite
> state machine or a cog/sprocket assembly for moving things along.
>
> Mental sidelink - the Agora.
>
> > - some users create and store interactive conversations on any topic,
> > uploading all kinds of multimedia material they find necessary to the
> > conversation
> > - other users are meant to have these conversations: they access this
> > material by having a chat with the Socrator
>
> So users upload material and... tag it as related to a particular term
> or concept framework?  Or is there a more complicated system in play,
> there?  Are they tagging/labeling the multimedia content, or tagging
> the whole conversation as a 'topic'?
>
> You might have luck looking for funding / publishing opportunities related
> to:
>
> - semantic web / linked open data
> - ontology development
> - knowledge management / document management
> - information discovery / inquiry
>
> What are the affordances made possible by the system?  What are the
> costs (time, attention, entering detail about content) demanded of the
> user?
>
> What makes it interesting such that someone would want to talk about
> it at CHI or in JCMC?  :-)
>
> best,
>
> --elijah wright
>



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Laetitia