Synthesizing Social Media/First Breakout Session

Possible Topics

Using the profile tags to be able to assign prefixes to a digital object
- So say i have paper:paper url in my profile
Then being able to refer to that object using @jonny:paper in a post
And then posts beneath that use that as the subject when resolving [ [Semantic::wikilinks] ]

Metadata tag in masto profile that links to a wiki page
- wiki:https://synthesis-infrastuctures.wiki/Jonny_Saunders
Page has a series of Property:Tag annotatations that link a short tag to a further page or URL. The linked page could have additional metadata like DOIs, authors, etc.
- [[Tag::shortname::Longer Page Name]]
Posting a thread with the first post using a syntax like @jonny:wiki:shortname then treats posts underneath that as having that as the subject, and a bot then scoops those up and puts them in the page enabling the use of semantic wikilinks, etc.
A bot then is monitoring opt-in accounts for these kinds of threads and exporting them to the relevant wiki page as subpages containing the threads.
- Like the WikiBot, additional Wikilinks within the thread also embed a link to the thread (probably want to have the thread be its own page then, and have some syntax for declaring a title)
The bot could also have interoperable export formats out to Braid, etc.

UX elements to be able to select and resolve tags for a given author within the instance that has enabled this syntax.
An overlay could search for linked wikis and work backwards - so given a DOI, find the page with the [[Has DOI::...]] page and then overlay the threads underneath it.

Shorthand identifiers using profile metadata (as above)
Using semantic links in streams headed by shorthand identifiers
Attention data on reading: taking eg. zotero and converting that to a post stream or something

One of the common norms that have developed on academic social media (Twitter/Mastodon) is announcement/summary threads of one’s paper. e.g.: https://hci.social/web/@Mor/109309396530932422 (others of interest: job market announcements, taking PhD announcements)
Imagine if you could create for yourself a unique, short, readable identifier for a paper, and add that in your post thread about your paper announcement.
- Possible syntax:
  - @mor:crisis-informatics //user namespace
    - downsides: there are multiple authors, so an author may feel left out if another author's id gets used more often or authors could coalesce around one author (ie, 1st author)
  - #cscw22:crisis-informatics //conference namespace
    - downsides: possibility for name conflicts, you could use the conference ID but it's not very readable
Things you could do as a result:
- Presentation: put all your different paper threads on your academic webpage and associated with each paper, for example
- Synthesis: collect all the paper announcements for a conference/topic and organize/synthesize it using other tools
- Discussion: people could reference your identifier in their conversations, and a bot could post the paper announcement thread as a reply (https://hci.social/web/@lewischuang/109331737391363720)
- Discussion: you could collect all discussion around your paper in a separate place, or a bot could post pingbacks on the original paper announcement thread

Attention data (~digital pheromone trails) is an important step in the knowledge synthesis pipeline- what am I looking at and my assessment of it
Linked data over ActivityPub-
- Pros- catching Mastodon wave, good expressivity but
- Cons- writing it manually creates friction and so reduces usage by researchers
An extension can create automatic linked data posts based on existing user activity in Zotero
- Adding a paper to a reading list
- Tagging
- Annotating inline, connecting pieces to other papers
- Reviewing/assessing/endorsing content
Question - what are interesting downstream applications for attention data?
- Content recommendation
- Layering paper viewers with endorsements/reviews, popular tags & annotations