1. USF Department of Computer Science Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Sharing David Wolber

2. USF Department of Computer Science

3. Associative Thinking Assistant

4. USF Department of Computer Science Motivation Desktop is outdated Digital libraries abound, but no tools (INFORMATION OVERLOAD) Avoiding a Googleopoly Peer-to-peer is a great new model, but sharing knowledge is hard.

5. USF Department of Computer Science Sneak Preview Develop webtop, not desktop tools A common search API and registry Zero-input publishing Open PC Movement

6. USF Department of Computer Science Today’s Desktop BookMark File ManagerHyper-Links Manager WebSphinx (Miller, Bharat)

7. USF Department of Computer Science Desktop tools are outdated Filing cabinet metaphor no longer fits Unnecessary barrier between local system and web Computer is a communication tool, a node in the knowledge base of the world

8. USF Department of Computer Science I see the documents Where are the people?

9. USF Department of Computer Science Motivation Desktop is outdated Digital libraries abound, but no tools (INFORMATION OVERLOAD) Avoiding a Googleopoly Peer-to-peer is a great new model, but sharing knowledge is hard.

10. USF Department of Computer Science Information Sources Google, Amazon, etc. History: Way-back machine Technorati– The World Live Web Domain Specific: – ACM Digital Library –Citeseer –MLA for literature

11. USF Department of Computer Science www.technorati.com

12. USF Department of Computer Science CiteSeer: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/

13. USF Department of Computer Science ACM

14. USF Department of Computer Science Internet Archive, Wayback

15. USF Department of Computer Science They all provide similar functionality, but…

16. USF Department of Computer Science Motivation Desktop is outdated Digital libraries abound, but no tools (INFORMATION OVERLOAD) Avoiding a Googleopoly Peer-to-peer is a great new model, but sharing knowledge is hard.

17. USF Department of Computer Science Media Conglomeration FCC lessening anti-trust laws Most media now owned by a handful of companies How many of us go through Google to get our information. Can we trust Google to stay “good”?

18. USF Department of Computer Science Motivation Desktop is outdated Digital libraries abound, but no tools (INFORMATION OVERLOAD) Avoiding a Googleopoly Peer-to-peer is a great new model, but sharing knowledge is hard.

19. USF Department of Computer Science Our Virtual Brains are modeled after our real ones

20. USF Department of Computer Science Research Tasks Communication Email Blog IM Web page Knowledge Creation Bookmark Create note/doc Put in folder Add link

21. USF Department of Computer Science The Big Question How much of the information hidden within your personal web is hidden due to privacy concerns?

22. USF Department of Computer Science Associative Thinking Agent Source list

23. USF Department of Computer Science Personal Metadata Cassini server PW Service WebTop Client Personal Computer 1 File System Personal Metadata Cassini server PW Service WebTop Client Personal Computer 2 File System Assoc Source UDDI Registry WTGoogle WTTechnorati

24. USF Department of Computer Science WebTop Client Tree View of results Information processing on node expansion Choose from dynamic list of sources N-Degree Heterogeneous Associations

25. USF Department of Computer Science Associations Outward Links (hyperlinks) Inward Links Similar Content Links Collaborative filtering Links

26. USF Department of Computer Science More Associations General Research: AuthorOf, collaborator, co-cited, home page of,… Domain-Specific –Films: Acted in, Directed –Campaigns: Gave money to

27. USF Department of Computer Science Separate Association Types Inward LinksBrowserOutward Links Content-Similar

28. USF Department of Computer Science IOC Tree I --- C – O --I Browser

29. USF Department of Computer Science Associative Source API and Registry A common search/link info API A central UDDI registry Allows for meta-search clients with dynamic lists of sources. Clients can access even those sources created after the client itself.

30. USF Department of Computer Science Organizational Sources Web Service Wrappers Wrappers implement one or more of the Associative Source API methods WebTop Client WTGoogle Assoc Service Google Web Service USFGoogle

31. USF Department of Computer Science Scenarios Search within the boomarks/links/papers of an expert When open one of your own papers, see newly created documents that cite it, that have similar content Easily navigate paper-author trail

32. USF Department of Computer Science The Personal Web 2 nd Degree 1 st Degree Nth Degree Personal Web Personal Space consists of highly interrelated files, i.e. a personal web The Web should be personalized to each user, i.e., a personal web. Personal Web-- local documents and “bookmarks” N-degree Neighborhood– can be reached with n clicks.

33. USF Department of Computer Science You can be a Search Engine Personal Web Analyzer –In/out links between documents –Full-text index –Characteristic words –Person/proper names in document Access between personal webs –Automatically installed mini-server –Auto-registration of web service

34. USF Department of Computer Science Connecting Personal Webs People create knowledge-- bookmarking, annotating, linking, synthesizing-- every day. Much of it is never communicated

35. USF Department of Computer Science Future Work Automated source discovery Alternative page ranking –Source reputation measures –In-links from groups of people, e.g., CS Professors

36. USF Department of Computer Science Get Involved http://webtop.cs.usfca.edu wolber@usfca.edu

37. USF Department of Computer Science WIKIs

38. USF Department of Computer Science Lawrence Lessig’s Blog http://www.lessig.org/ blog/

39. USF Department of Computer Science Web Services Programmatic interface to web data Software agent access to data Helps separate View/Model More robust than “web scrapers” XML/Soap Rest-ful Interfaces

40. USF Department of Computer Science Web Services Web services allow clients to aggregate information from various sources, process, then display in a custom fashion. More robust than scraping web pages client source GUI

41. USF Department of Computer Science XML/Soap Web Services XML/Soap WSDL UDDI

42. USF Department of Computer Science Know more about yourself Analysis of file system –Linking between documents –inward links –characteristic words of documents –what people are referred to –what web pages