Dileepa, You may want to look into the W3C WebID effort - I would recommend this as a good tool for social/semantic identity. www.w3.org/wiki/WebID Ed
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 1:07 PM, 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/ >> > >>
