Synthesizing Social Media

Synthesizing Social Media
Description	How to enable sharing/direction of scholarly attention in a synthesis-oriented manner (e.g., not just popularity, but relevance to questions/hypotheses/methods, etc.)?
Related Topics	Discovery, Scientific Publishing, ActivityPub
Projects	Linked Data Publishing On Activitypub
Discord Channel	#linked-data-activitypub
Facilitator	Jonny Saunders
Members	Jonny Saunders, Benjamin Goering, Amy Zhang, Ronen Tamari, Konrad Hinsen, Michael Toomim, Nouran Soliman

What

How to enable sharing/direction of scholarly attention in a synthesis-oriented manner (e.g., not just popularity, but relevance to questions/hypotheses/methods, etc.)?

Discussion Entrypoints

• https://discord.com/channels/1029514961782849607/1033091723389317160/1037771875012591616
• concrete example: https://discord.com/channels/1029514961782849607/1037786518800039978/1037791239908622466
• SEPIO + ActivitySteams via JSON-LD: https://discord.com/channels/1029514961782849607/1040042059916120094/1040042094363942932

Notes

• Synthesizing Social Media/First Breakout Session

Resources

• Live notetaking pad: https://wickie.invisible.college/synthesis-workshop/social-media
• https://noo.network/
• https://trustnet.csail.mit.edu/
• Surfacing Trust, Assessment, and Provenance for Better News Sharing

Pre-Workshop

• BookWyrm: Social Reading and Reviewing https://joinbookwyrm.com/
• Fediverse
• Mastodon
• ActivityPub
• Benjamin Goering started a thread with a prototype of expressing a graph of info using both ActivityStreams and SEPIO ontologies - https://discord.com/channels/1029514961782849607/1033091723389317160/1040042059916120094

Next (ideas for next steps, open problems)

there seems to be some energy behind producing a prototype/spec, perhaps to implement in an ActivityPub base

could use:

• a "user" (preferably non-technical) to give feedback on mental models here. maybe Pooja Upadhyay?