I also think such a project would be very useful combined with a (re)activation of WebId and possibly OpenId authentication.
Cheers, Reto On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Ed - 0x1b, Inc. <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > >> > > >> >
