Hi All, While I continued to browse through the Stanbol JIRA I came across https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STANBOL-1037 in which the usage of entity disambiguation is discussed. I think verifying digital identity on web also depends on name ambiguity and the concept of entity disambiguation is highly applicable in my research idea. For example there are in-fact 2 'Dileepa Jayakody's in Sri Lanka. One is in the IT industry and the other in the film industry. So it's essential to use entity disambiguation techniques to identify the intended Dileepa based on multiple contexts.
WDYT? Thanks, Dileepa On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Dileepa Jayakody <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi Andreas and all, > > Thanks a lot for your feedback, I'm definitely open to other's > ideas/suggestions as well. Please feel free to forward the mail to other > lists and let me know (I would love to suscribe to other related lists..) > My idea about the research project on *'verified digital identity'* is as > below. > > We need a verified identity of people we interact with on the internet. > There maybe so many false profiles, impersonating real people/organization > and we need to be sure that we are interacting with the real person. For > example I want to be sure that the person who has sent me a friend request > on FB, or an email is the real physical person I meet f2f. > IMO there are several methods we can use to verify the identity of a > person. We can use a verified identity provider or we can adapt a > trust-model based on social networks/social activity of the person to > verify his/her digital identity based on social proof concepts. > To build a trust-model based on online social interactions, we can use > semantic web techniques and I think FOAF, RDFa can be very useful in > building such a framework. By analyzing the social activity streams, social > graph and network of the person we can verify the identity. > As you have mentioned the privacy implications in such a system are > important. We might need to implement an access control mechanism over the > data exchanging via the system to protect privacy. Also as you have > suggested the trust-model can comprise of a reputation calculation module > based on the feedback a person gets regarding his identity over the web. > > So above is my general idea of the research project I'm looking at. I > think Stanbol, with it's features like Enhancer, Ontology Manager and > Reasoner is one of the best choices to implement such a framework to verify > digital identity over the web. Such a system to analyse social data can be > further improved to implement a perception analysis engine for people. :) > > On a related note, I'm currently going through the documentation of > Stanbol. While groing through I came across a typo mistake and a invailid > link, wanted to point it out :). > Created a jira for this at > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STANBOL-1050 > > Thanks, > Dileepa > > > On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Andreas Kuckartz <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Dileepa, >> >> thanks a lot for your mail. >> >> At the moment I only want to provide a quick but brief feedback. >> >> What do others think? >> >> Your project idea definitely fits the general project idea formulated in >> STANBOL-1009. >> >> Can you tel us a bit more about the use case? Who would use such a >> feature? >> >> Which implications would there be regarding privacy? Would it be >> possible to use such a feature to improve privacy (for example by >> providing feedback to a user regaring his or her identifiability)? >> >> I would like to forward your mail to two other (public) mailing lists to >> ask for suggestions. Would that be ok with you? >> >> Cheers, >> Andreas >> --- >> >> Dileepa Jayakody: >> > Hi Devs, >> > >> > I'm Dileepa Jayakody a research student keen on distributed computing >> > domain, particularly interested in social networking, social identity, >> > semantic web concepts. I have started studying for a M.Sc by Research at >> > University of Moratuwa and recently joined LK Domain Registry as a >> research >> > assistant. Currently I'm assigned to the 'Digital Identity' research >> group, >> > and now doing a literature survey on Digital Identity and identity >> > verification techniques. My objective is to develop a methodology to >> > verify the identity of a person/organization by analyzing profiles, >> social >> > activity over different social networking streams, and other verified >> > data-streams. I'm looking at technologies like RDFa, JSON-LD, FOAF, >> nosql >> > databases and other semantic tools which could be helpful to build a >> > suitable solution. While researching through the web, I came across >> Apache >> > Stanbol project and I'm highly interested in learning about Stanbol for >> my >> > research project. I'm also fascinated by the GSOC idea on using Stanbol >> for >> > federated social web [2]. It would be great to get ideas on how to >> > integrate Stanbol to implement a system to verify digital identity of a >> > person/organization over social networking streams. >> > >> > To tell a bit more about myself, prior to joining LK Domain Registry as >> a >> > research assistant, I was a software engineer for 1.5 years at WSO2 >> (Pvt) >> > Ltd [1], the opensource SOA company where I was a member of the carbon >> team >> > which is the kernel of the WSO2 Product stack which are OSGi based >> > products. I have a good development background on java, web services, >> OSGi >> > and maven. I also have a good understanding about the opensource >> > development process and culture as WSO2 follows the apache model for >> > software development. I have also participated in OSGi Community Event >> 2012 >> > co-located with EclipseCon 2012 by giving a tech.talk on "Building A >> > Modular Server Platform with OSGi" [3]. >> > >> > Currently I'm going through Stanbol documentation at [4] and building >> > Stanbol from trunk source. >> > Looking forward to your feedback. >> > >> > Thanks and regards, >> > Dileepa >> > >> > [1] http://www.wso2.com >> > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STANBOL-1009 >> > [3] >> > >> http://www.eclipsecon.org/europe2012/sessions/building-server-platform-osgi >> > [4] http://stanbol.apache.org/docs/trunk/ >> > >> > >
