Resources
- Identity Use Cases & Scenarios.
- FIDIS Deliverables.
- IDIS Journal.
- FIDIS Interactive.
- Press & Events.
- In-House Journal.
- Booklets
- Identity in a Networked World.
- Identity R/Evolution.
D2.3: Models
Social characteristics (sociology)
Description
The “social characteristics” deals with all the information regarding the relationship that people have with one another individually, or as part of a group.
Examples of attributes
Social networks (FOAF)
Personal network (mates, friends, …)
Family network
Professional network
Political network
Affiliation
Groups
Professional groups
Political party
Social categories (extracted via data mining)
Social identity (reputation, informal roles & authority, etc.)
Social style (competitive / collaborative, introvert / extravert)
Social role
Team role (Belbin model)
Plant, Resource investigator, Co-ordinator, Shaper, Monitor evaluator, Teamworker, Implementer, CompleterReputation
Application domains
Many application domains deal with social characteristics. For instance, on the Internet, online social networking systems (such as LinkedIn, Friendster, Orkut) directly represent the social networks in order to facilitate the creation and the exploitation of social structure. Similarly, the Blogosphere (the Internet space that consists of a set of blogs) is often considered as a giant social network linking the different owners of blogs which refer to one another. Affiliation is also an attribute that is present in many systems relying on informal communication such as virtual communities.
In the domain of electronic commerce, social characteristics can appear via the socio-economical group categories that can be extracted using data-mining techniques.
Relevant standards
Standards such as FOAF (Friend Of A Friend) or XFN represent specifications that have been created specifically to represent people relationships.
In the domain of eCommerce, CIQ (OASIS Customer Information Quality) also provides a way to specify relationships between a vendor and a customer, or a customer and a vendor organisation.
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